is it possible to move my appdata folder to another hard drive?

[snoogans310]

i'm hoping to get back in to mining again, haven't for about 2 years. so my wallets are all behind and they're filling up a lot of space on my 120gig sshd which has windows on it.. i think bitcoin alone takes up 80gig. i also have a terabyte hard drive in my pc.

is it possible to transfer the folder or does it have to be in the hard drive that windows is installed on.   

thanks.

[steven0021]

i'm hoping to get back in to mining again, haven't for about 2 years. so my wallets are all behind and they're filling up a lot of space on my 120gig sshd which has windows on it.. i think bitcoin alone takes up 80gig. i also have a terabyte hard drive in my pc.

is it possible to transfer the folder or does it have to be in the hard drive that windows is installed on.    

thanks.

At least for bitcoin blockchain files, you can move them anywhere you like. But you have to configure the software to read the files from the new directory instead of the old one under appdata.

[crairezx20]

I don't understand what exactly do you mean. but i think you can transfer it to another hard drive..
If you are old users of bitcoin and your files from the wallet is old it takes a long time again to resync..
Can you mention what wallet do you use.?

[snoogans310]

i'm hoping to get back in to mining again, haven't for about 2 years. so my wallets are all behind and they're filling up a lot of space on my 120gig sshd which has windows on it.. i think bitcoin alone takes up 80gig. i also have a terabyte hard drive in my pc.

is it possible to transfer the folder or does it have to be in the hard drive that windows is installed on.    

thanks.

At least for bitcoin blockchain files, you can move them anywhere you like. But you have to configure the software to read the files from the new directory instead of the old one under appdata.

i wouldn't have a clue where to start. maybe i should buy another hard drive. 

[snoogans310]

I don't understand what exactly do you mean. but i think you can transfer it to another hard drive..
If you are old users of bitcoin and your files from the wallet is old it takes a long time again to resync..
Can you mention what wallet do you use.?

my hard drive where all the block data goes to is too small to have all my wallets up to date. its 120gig and just bitcoin takes up 80gig. i have a 1 terabyte 2nd hard drive and wanted to know if i could set it up so the data goes there. i have the latest wallets.

[steven0021]

i wouldn't have a clue where to start. maybe i should buy another hard drive.  

1. Backup your wallet.dat.
2. Copy your Bitcoin folder somewhere else.
3. Start bitcoin core with -choosedatadir=1, and set it to the directory where you copied your Bitcoin folder to.
4. Wait for bitcoin core to reindex.
5. Restart core to see if anything went wrong just in case.
6. Done. You can delete the old files but it's always recommended to keep at least 1 copy of your data files in case of corruption (so you don't need to resync).

About #3. To do this on windows, use the run window (win+r shortcut) and enter

Code:

"X:\x\x\bitcoin-qt.exe" -choosedatadir=1

Change the Xs to where bitcoin-qt.exe is located.
or just view the properties of bitcoin-qt shortcut and add -choosedatadir=1 in the target box. But remember to remove it later or it'll ask you to choose datadir every time you open bitcoin-qt using that shortcut.

[socks435]

i wouldn't have a clue where to start. maybe i should buy another hard drive.  

1. Backup your wallet.dat.
2. Copy your Bitcoin folder somewhere else.
3. Start bitcoin core with -choosedatadir=1, and set it to the directory where you copied your Bitcoin folder to.
4. Wait for bitcoin core to reindex.
5. Restart core to see if anything went wrong just in case.
6. Done. You can delete the old files but it's always recommended to keep at least 1 copy of your data files in case of corruption (so you don't need to resync).

About #3. To do this on windows, use the run window (win+r shortcut) and enter

Code:

"X:\x\x\bitcoin-qt.exe" -choosedatadir=1

Change the Xs to where bitcoin-qt.exe is located.
or just view the properties of bitcoin-qt shortcut and add -choosedatadir=1 in the target box. But remember to remove it later or it'll ask you to choose datadir every time you open bitcoin-qt using that shortcut.

Its been a 2 years according to op the file there should resync or download a new blocks.. so after doing backuping all important files from appdata like wallet.dat prefer to clean out and download a new blocks.. this is just in case if the old block wont work.

[snoogans310]

thanks for the advice i'll try that if i can work out how to do it.