Right now, the %APPDATA\Roaming\Bitcoin folder is about 2GB. I think it would be good if there was a way to configure where Bitcoin's information is stored.
Option to move bitcoin storage in Windows #736
issue MaxBareiss opened this issue on January 2, 2012-
MaxBareiss commented at 9:50 PM on January 2, 2012: none
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sipa commented at 6:43 PM on January 10, 2012: member
Doesn't -datadir work?
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MaxBareiss commented at 2:25 AM on January 11, 2012: none
I was thinking a gui option in bitcoin-qt. Does -datadir need to be specified with every run of the program, or does the setting get saved somewhere?
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grue0 commented at 8:05 PM on January 15, 2012: none
@Skinkworks: no, it needs to be specified on every startup. coincidentally, datadir also specifies where bitcoin.conf is, which causes a chicken-and-egg problem about where to save settings.
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Diapolo commented at 1:58 PM on June 9, 2012: none
As Bitcoin-Qt does not save settings from the optionsdialog in the datadir it should be possible to implement this, but priority for this is rather low.
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NvrBst commented at 9:45 PM on July 4, 2012: none
I would also like to +1 this option. Ideally I'd like the datadirectory to be inside the installation directly. Especially when using the 'portable' ".zip" version, it would be nice to have it all localized, aka, not use any external directories. I was thinking by default it should try "%installation_dir%\data" :). Then again I hate the idea of the %appdata% gimic for any app.
Having it configurable via gui would be a nice compromise though. I also seen another suggestion via "private" and "public" data. It'd be nice to separate this so it's like "wallet.dat + personalized settings/labels" in folder a, and "blockchain stuff" in folder b. It'd be easier for new people to know what needs to be backed up. By default they can be the same directory (as is now).
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laanwj commented at 9:11 AM on March 29, 2013: member
The problem is that, by the time you get the UI, the datadir will already have been created and filled.
The only way around this would be to have a 'first use' screen in which the datadir can be selected (as, indeed, as @Diapolo says, the Qt settings are not stored in the datadir).
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huiju commented at 2:38 AM on August 4, 2013: none
Since vista we can use symbolic links with the command line (with admin rights) MKLINK /D linkname targetfolder . In that case, it will do something like MKLINK /D %AppData%\Bitcoin Z:\BitcoinData , where Z:\BitcoinData\Bitcoin is the new folder for the data. You need to stop the bitcoin programs and to move the Bitcoin folder in this new emplacement before to perform the command.
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