Proposal: be able to change the location of the blockchain data for Bitcoin core client #4888

issue handsomegui opened this issue on September 10, 2014

handsomegui commented at 8:17 AM on September 10, 2014: none

People need to change the location of the blockchain data to some other place(Other disk/partition/folder, etc) before running out the disk capacity.

It is now not support to do this in Bitcoin Core 0.9.2.1.

It would be great to allow people to set / customise the location of the blockchain data. For both during the installation & after installation.
laanwj commented at 8:28 AM on September 10, 2014: member

This is already possible in 0.9. Just move the data directory (while Bitcoin Core is not running), and next time you start it will ask where the data directory is.
laanwj closed this on Sep 10, 2014
handsomegui commented at 9:27 AM on September 10, 2014: none

Got that with thanks.
handsomegui commented at 9:36 AM on September 10, 2014: none

But, it would be nice to do this during installation & after installation(like in the settings/options menu). The way you suggest is not that intuitive.
laanwj commented at 11:50 AM on September 10, 2014: member

It also asks if the data directory doesn't exist, on new installations.

Anyhow, feel free to improve this if you want to make it more user friendly.
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