on OSX, bitcoind chooses different data directory than Bitcoin-Qt #27119

1. 
   pinheadmz commented at 4:08 pm on February 17, 2023: member

   bitcoind uses ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin as base data directory path but Bitcoin-Qt uses ~/.bitcoin

   I actually much prefer the latter since it is more UNIX-like and I assume users running the daemon from the command line probably do as well. It might make sense if this behavior was swapped and the GUI chose the user-friendly library/support path, but my preference would be using ~/.bitcoin on OSX all the time.

   The issue most likely comes down to this logic in system.cpp:

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/fe1b3256888bd0e70d0c9655f565e139ec87b606/src/util/system.cpp#L859-L864

   … but I have no idea why Bitcoin-Qt would be compiled without the MAC_OSX flag while bitcoind would be. I confirmed the behavior building bitcoind and -Qt both from master and also by downloading the v24.0.1 GUI for OSX from bitcoincore.org

   It’s also possible that this issue only affects M1 (arm64) Macs like mine:

   0--> uname -a
   1Darwin   21.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.4.0: Fri Mar 18 00:47:26 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.101.4~15/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64
   

2. pinheadmz added the label Bug on Feb 17, 2023
3. 
   willcl-ark commented at 4:58 pm on February 17, 2023: contributor

   FWIW I could not replicate this on my 2017 Intel MBP on master. Choosing “Use Default Datadir” on QT setup screen saw it use “Library/Application Support/Bitcoin” as the datadir.
4. 
   pinheadmz commented at 6:37 pm on February 17, 2023: member

   This is my fault, there were old Qt preferences saved and the custom directory was recalled from there
5. pinheadmz closed this on Feb 17, 2023

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