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Title: How to move Armory to External Hard Drive on a Mac
Post by: r-bitcoin on April 22, 2017, 10:02:57 PM
Please explain it to me like I am 5 years old. Thank you :)




I posted this on r/Bitcoin but I got zero answers :(
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/66b5xi/how_to_move_armory_to_external_hard_drive_on_a_mac/


Title: Re: How to move Armory to External Hard Drive on a Mac
Post by: droark on April 24, 2017, 08:26:37 PM
The app or the data?


Title: Re: How to move Armory to External Hard Drive on a Mac
Post by: unamis76 on April 24, 2017, 11:05:40 PM
Use the --datadir option


Title: Re: How to move Armory to External Hard Drive on a Mac
Post by: gangtraet on April 25, 2017, 07:47:52 PM
Use the --datadir option

On a Mac, it is hard to convince the app to take a command like argument.  At least, I could not get it to work.

I posted an alternative solution here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1680135.msg17038225#msg17038225

NOTE: This will move Bitcoin Core's data.  With a recent Armory version, it is only Bitcoin Core that has large amounts of data.