Title: Trouble moving Bitcoin-qt wallet to external drive Post by: deltaqueue on November 22, 2013, 12:25:48 AM Hi all,
My bitcoin folder (in Appdata/roaming) is 13.5GB. It's too big to keep on my SSD, so I need to move it to an external drive. To do this, I tried first detaching the database, so I ran this code in the command prompt (using Windows 7 x64): Code: "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -detachdb=1 (bitcoin wallet opens, then I close it) From there I copied the Bitcoin folder and put it on my E drive, then ran this in the command prompt: Code: "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=E:\Bitcoin When that opens my Bitcoin wallet, it says my bitcoins are unverified, and nothing really happens. I left bitcoin-qt open for 12 hours and it still says I'm 254 weeks behind / not synced / have X unverified coins. When I finally closed bitcoin-qt and re-opened it using the shortcut, it used my original database destination and the wallet was synced in a short period of time. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong and how I can successfully move this bitcoin data to an external drive? Title: Re: Trouble moving Bitcoin-qt wallet to external drive Post by: BookLover on November 22, 2013, 01:36:07 AM You don't need to run:
Code: "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -detachdb=1 You need to change the shortcut target to Code: "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=E:\Bitcoin I bet you got the target directory wrong, I would look at E:\Bitcoin and were you put your bitcoin directory and make sure they match up correctly. Wild guess here if nothing else works try running: Code: "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=E:\Bitcoin\ |