couldnt connect to daemon

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i decided to us emonero for the first time yesterday. i paid for some from localmonero and then waited. well i realize i am not synced. daemon wont connect and here is my error code:Monero 'Fluorine Fermi' (v0.18.3.3-release)Error: Couldn't connect to daemon: 127.0.0.1:18081it wont let me connect to a remote node either. i think i disabled my firewall and i ran as administrator. what am i doing wrong?EDIT: i opened daemon directly from the files. it opened a CMD window and looks like it was working. i then clicked connect daemon in the gui wallet and it looks like it is starting synchronization

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