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Bitcoin => Armory => Topic started by: S5QUwMta4CM6 on February 17, 2015, 12:09:56 PM



Title: I have 3 copies of the blockchain somehow
Post by: S5QUwMta4CM6 on February 17, 2015, 12:09:56 PM
tl;dr How do you tell Armory to use a blockchain on a specific drive?

First let me say I have got Armory working with no problems at all. My problem is that I have an SSD in C: so I want to run Armory, bitcoin and store one copy of the blockchain on E: to save space on C:

bitcoind
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Bitcoin-qt is in E:\Program Files\Bitcoin with bitcoind.exe in E:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon
bitcoin has a copy of the blockchain in E:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin

Armory
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Armory is installed in E:\Program Files (x86)\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe
I have got my wallets and another copy of the blockchain in C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Armory (which seems to be the most up-to-date)
I have got my wallets and a third copy of the blockchain in E:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Armory

Armory is running bitcoind in the background.
I have entered the Bitcoin Install Dir as E:\Program Files\Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Home Dir as E:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin

Problem: Although Armory is running from E: and so is bitcoind, I can't figure out how to make Armory use a copy (share a single copy ideally) of the blockchain on E: Armory seems to be using the orginal copy on C: which I want to delete and the bitcoin-qt/core client has created its own copy.

Anybody any ideas? I don't use bitcoin-qt/core, it just starts downloading the blockchain when you upgrade it. I am on Windows 7 64-bit. Thanks.


Title: Re: I have 3 copies of the blockchain somehow
Post by: Carlton Banks on February 17, 2015, 01:38:36 PM
I think Windows has a configurable way of supplying arguments to an executable, possibly by using the properties window for the .exe you're using. And I'd assume that Armory for Windows accepts the same command line arguments that Linux does (--datadir=<your Armory database directory> and --satoshi-datadir=<your Bitcoin database directory>). Someone who knows Windows better than me could tell you.


Title: Re: I have 3 copies of the blockchain somehow
Post by: goatpig on February 17, 2015, 02:56:35 PM
I think Windows has a configurable way of supplying arguments to an executable, possibly by using the properties window for the .exe you're using.

That would be the target field in a shortcut to the exe

And I'd assume that Armory for Windows accepts the same command line arguments that Linux does (--datadir=<your Armory database directory> and --satoshi-datadir=<your Bitcoin database directory>).

Yes


Title: Re: I have 3 copies of the blockchain somehow
Post by: S5QUwMta4CM6 on February 22, 2015, 01:20:20 PM
That's great and thanks for your help, the information is in https://bitcoinarmory.com/tutorials/armory-basics/move-files/