Is it possible to have lots of Altcoin wallets on external hard drive?

[Horsetail]

I assume you should have a 1Tb hard drive on a 64-bit laptop and you can simply have lots of different cryptocurrencies' native wallets, and  save their private keys safely somewhere else.   My hard drive has only 32 GB and a slot for an SD card and one USB slot .

I am currently trying SIA wallet which after 10 days of trying has not fully downloaded, and has occupied 8 Gb of the hard drive in the AppData folder as of yet.  This wallet is giving error messages I don't understand

SIA does not install in C:\Program Files, and  I  cannot find where it installs
The Daedalus and iota wallets are installing, after running the ,exe file, in C:\Program Files

Can I have my altcoin wallets on my 64 Gb SD card or on a USB external hard drive?
Running the program did install it automatically on C:\Program Files\   and so this may be
a matter of making a program install elsewhere, in a different folder???
And What about the AppData folder where SIA wallet has taken up 8GB disc space?  Can I change the default storage
to a different folder than Appdata? This SIA folder in AppData, worth about 8Gb disc space, can it be deleted and the
SIA wallet continue to work properly?

Sorry for dumb questions, any replies will be appreciated

[farproc]

I assume you should have a 1Tb hard drive on a 64-bit laptop and you can simply have lots of different cryptocurrencies' native wallets, and  save their private keys safely somewhere else.   My hard drive has only 32 GB and a slot for an SD card and one USB slot .

I am currently trying SIA wallet which after 10 days of trying has not fully downloaded, and has occupied 8 Gb of the hard drive in the AppData folder as of yet.  This wallet is giving error messages I don't understand

SIA does not install in C:\Program Files, and  I  cannot find where it installs
The Daedalus and iota wallets are installing, after running the ,exe file, in C:\Program Files

Can I have my altcoin wallets on my 64 Gb SD card or on a USB external hard drive?
Running the program did install it automatically on C:\Program Files\   and so this may be
a matter of making a program install elsewhere, in a different folder???
And What about the AppData folder where SIA wallet has taken up 8GB disc space?  Can I change the default storage
to a different folder than Appdata? This SIA folder in AppData, worth about 8Gb disc space, can it be deleted and the
SIA wallet continue to work properly?

Sorry for dumb questions, any replies will be appreciated

use ladger nano's, it contains a large amount of alts! and you will not need to install hardware wallets on your computer

[xenomorphe1]

I assume you should have a 1Tb hard drive on a 64-bit laptop and you can simply have lots of different cryptocurrencies' native wallets, and  save their private keys safely somewhere else.   My hard drive has only 32 GB and a slot for an SD card and one USB slot .

I am currently trying SIA wallet which after 10 days of trying has not fully downloaded, and has occupied 8 Gb of the hard drive in the AppData folder as of yet.  This wallet is giving error messages I don't understand

SIA does not install in C:\Program Files, and  I  cannot find where it installs
The Daedalus and iota wallets are installing, after running the ,exe file, in C:\Program Files

Can I have my altcoin wallets on my 64 Gb SD card or on a USB external hard drive?
Running the program did install it automatically on C:\Program Files\   and so this may be
a matter of making a program install elsewhere, in a different folder???
And What about the AppData folder where SIA wallet has taken up 8GB disc space?  Can I change the default storage
to a different folder than Appdata? This SIA folder in AppData, worth about 8Gb disc space, can it be deleted and the
SIA wallet continue to work properly?

Sorry for dumb questions, any replies will be appreciated

Make a backup on an external hard drive (maybe 2 copies on 2 separate hard drives is better). Make them regularly. Leave the copy on your current disk. If you really need disk space, delete wallets you are not going to use on your main hard drive. You just have to restore it from one of the backup if you want to recuperate the wallet.

[Minor Miner]

If you have some coins/tokens which are supported by Ledger Nano S the best way is to store them with this device. But if you have a lot of non-supported coins the best way you can use is the file server with RAID 1 or 10.

[NeuroticFish]

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.

[Horsetail]

I assume you should have a 1Tb hard drive on a 64-bit laptop and you can simply have lots of different cryptocurrencies' native wallets, and  save their private keys safely somewhere else.   My hard drive has only 32 GB and a slot for an SD card and one USB slot .

I am currently trying SIA wallet which after 10 days of trying has not fully downloaded, and has occupied 8 Gb of the hard drive in the AppData folder as of yet.  This wallet is giving error messages I don't understand

SIA does not install in C:\Program Files, and  I  cannot find where it installs
The Daedalus and iota wallets are installing, after running the ,exe file, in C:\Program Files

Can I have my altcoin wallets on my 64 Gb SD card or on a USB external hard drive?
Running the program did install it automatically on C:\Program Files\   and so this may be
a matter of making a program install elsewhere, in a different folder???
And What about the AppData folder where SIA wallet has taken up 8GB disc space?  Can I change the default storage
to a different folder than Appdata? This SIA folder in AppData, worth about 8Gb disc space, can it be deleted and the
SIA wallet continue to work properly?

Sorry for dumb questions, any replies will be appreciated

use ladger nano's, it contains a large amount of alts! and you will not need to install hardware wallets on your computer


THANK YOU FARPROC

[Ging]

i am sure that there are wallets on v but i am not sure what do you mean with your question Is it possible to have lots of Altcoin wallets on external hard drive?

[Horsetail]

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

[NeuroticFish]

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 administrator
Step 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.

[cryptomarijuana]

Hardwallet is more secured than HDDs they can be easily compromised by the professional hackers using viruses,the best option if you dont have money to buy hardwallet is a paper wallet but be sure to store it in a secured place.