How to use a different folder with the Satoshi client?

[giszmo]

I found I can start bitcoin qt with the -datadir= option but when I tell it to automatically start, it happily fills my home folder disk again.
(I tried ln -s ~/.bitcoin /mnt/other/disk/bitcoinFolderCopy but it did not work.)

Thanx for advice.

[Raoul Duke]

Why don't you insert the datadir option into the command that starts it automatically?
There must be a startup script somewhere that you can edit.

[someguy123]

Why don't you insert the datadir option into the command that starts it automatically?

^this
Add -datadir=/mnt/other/disk/bitcoinFolderCopy to your bitcoind command. If you're on ubuntu there's a "Startup Applications" tool somewhere iirc that would let you do that easily

[giszmo]

I have mint but still for reference: Mint-Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Startup Aplications -> Bitcoin -> Edit

But … : Funny bitcoin-qt is funny. When I open the settings and close them using the "ok" button, everything I changed via the last step is reverted. UGLY!

Should I bother providing a patch or is the pull request process so elite that it's not worth it? (My goal for the patch would be to have the checkbox "Start Bitcoin on window system startup" also toggle visible a line for additional commandline options that would be added when saving the options. Should be quite trivial.)

[betatest512]

why dont you try the portable edition