Running Bitcoin Core and Armory on a Mac with blockchain data on external drive?

[pf]

On Mac OS X, how can I run Bitcoin Core and Armory such that both use custom folders on an external drive to store the blockchain data?

By default, everything is in ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin and ~/Library/Application Support/Armory

I want it to be in /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/Bitcoin and /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/Armory

How do I accomplish this?

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[achow101]

On Mac OS X, how can I run Bitcoin Core and Armory such that both use custom folders on an external drive to store the blockchain data?

By default, everything is in ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin and ~/Library/Application Support/Armory

I want it to be in /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/Bitcoin and /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/Armory

How do I accomplish this?

In the command for starting up Bitcoin Core, add the flag

Code:

--datadir=<path to external Bitcoin Core data folder>

and in the command for starting Armory

Code:

--datadir=<path to external armory data folder> --satoshi-datadir=<path to external Bitcoin Core data folder>

[pf]

Thanks, that would have worked I think. But after some Googling, I went with just creating symlinks:

ln -s /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/Blockchains/Bitcoin ~/Library/Application\ Support/Bitcoin
ln -s /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/Blockchains/Armory ~/Library/Application\ Support/Armory

Works great. The same works great for Litecoin too:

ln -s /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/Blockchains/Litecoin ~/Library/Application\ Support/Litecoin