Moving the wallet.dat file

[cosmicboy]

I've installed electrum on a truecrypt disk. However it is still putting the wallet on the unecrypted c drive. Is there any way to put this on the encrypted drive too?
-cb

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[btcven]

You can use the command -w to point to the wallet you want the app to use.

In Terminal:
./electrum -w /path/to/truecrypt/electrum.dat

Or just add the -w /... part to the launcher (on Windows)

[cosmicboy]

"Or just add the -w /... part to the launcher (on Windows)"

Sounds great but not sure how to do this? I did look around online but can't find out how.

thanks,
cb

[btcven]

"Or just add the -w /... part to the launcher (on Windows)"

Sounds great but not sure how to do this? I did look around online but can't find out how.

thanks,
cb

When you intall Electrum in Windows with the Installer you'll have a shortcut in the Desktop, duplicate it and change the properties of that shortcut to add -w C:/Users/Desktop/electrum.dat or the path you want after the shortcut path to "executable" or whatever the default is

[samadamsbeer]

Very cool. Is that wallet.dat encrypted itself? Is it possible to password protect the client to prevent theft to someone who has access to my computer? Ubuntu user here.

[btcven]

Very cool. Is that wallet.dat encrypted itself? Is it possible to password protect the client to prevent theft to someone who has access to my computer? Ubuntu user here.

When you first create your Electrum wallet it gives you your seed (to be able to restore it in the future) and ask you to encrypt your wallet. Just use a strong password and your seed, that is inside your electrum.dat file will be encrypted (public addresses are not encrypted, but they are already public anyways). You'll be asked to enter your password in order to spend your coins.

Your seed is your access to all your private keys. You must not lose it.

[cosmicboy]

Thanks adding that to the shortcut did the trick. To the encryption question, I just want to put the whole thing in a truecrypt container so there is no trace on my computer and no way a hacker could access it while the drive is not mounted.

cb