And What about the AppData folder where SIA wallet has taken up 8GB disc space? Can I change the default storage
Since you have Windows, I'll teach you
the trick.
You'll find out in your life that there are many apps that use AppData and such folders to deposit their data, since it's M$ standard and it has to be OK, right? And most don't have option to change that.
But you can make a symbolic link. The app will believe it uses a folder in AppData (or wherever...) and the actual data can be somewhere else, even a different drive.
You have to do (in AppData folder) something like: mklink /D your_unwanted_folder_name "D:\path\to\new\folder"
your_unwanted_folder_name has to not exist, you have to move it away first.
Dear NeuroticFish
So I move one of the folders inside say Appdata>Roaming to external hard
drive?#
Then we add a symbolic link inside Appdata>Roaming?
how to do that?
I I know the mkdir command on command.com to create a director
Is Mklink a command on the it as well?
Sorry for my ignorance,
Thanks
Horsetail
Yes, mklink is similar (sortof) to mkdir.
Let's say your have a lot of space (maybe a new HDD) and you have on that the drive E.
Let's say that your user on that computer is Horsetail and you have a folder c:\users\Horsetail\AppData\Roaming\MyPreciousssCoin with a lot of data.
Step 1. Close all the programs related to MyPreciousssCoin (wallet, daemon, whatever)
Step 2. Create on E: the folder Cryptocurrencies
Step 3. Move the folder MyPreciousssCoin into E:\Cryptocurrencies (Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V)
Step 4. Start command prompt
as administratorStep 5. In that command prompt change dir to c:\users\Horsetail\AppData\Roaming\
Step 6. Type (then enter) : mklink /D MyPreciousssCoin "E:\Cryptocurrencies\MyPreciousssCoin"
Step 7. Verify that a folder-like item was created as c:\users\Horsetail\AppData\Roaming\MyPreciousssCoin ; You can even enter there, it should go to the data (which you moved).
Step 8. Start MyPreciousssCoin wallet/daemon.
I made the steps from my head, without re-check, sorry if there is any typo.
Edit: you can repeat the steps for each coin, obviously.