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April 28, 2017, 07:37:19 PM
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How big is the bitcoin chain stored on the HD? My internet is very low speed, can i download the chain and import to my wallet ?

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April 28, 2017, 08:10:49 PM
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Downloading the blockchain externally and "importing" it will take more time than to just let Bitcoin Core sync normally.

The blockchain is currently 110+ GB but you can enable pruning in order to reduce the disk space required. It will still consume the same amount of internet bandwidth to download the entire thing.

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April 28, 2017, 09:02:40 PM
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Downloading the blockchain externally and "importing" it will take more time than to just let Bitcoin Core sync normally.

The blockchain is currently 110+ GB but you can enable pruning in order to reduce the disk space required. It will still consume the same amount of internet bandwidth to download the entire thing.

Does the btc core check if the amount of space avaible is ok for sync?

If i run wallet in Data partition (no user here, just NTFS for stuff), does the wallet create a folder somewhere in Data or still sync the %appdata% folder?

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April 28, 2017, 10:43:20 PM
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Does the btc core check if the amount of space avaible is ok for sync?
No. It is impossible to know how big the blockchain actually is without having downloaded the entire thing. Bitcoin Core cannot tell you whether you have enough disk space as it does not know how much is needed.

If i run wallet in Data partition (no user here, just NTFS for stuff), does the wallet create a folder somewhere in Data or still sync the %appdata% folder?
Unless you have specified otherwise, the data directory will always be %appdata%/Bitcoin. You could have changed this when you first started the program. In order to change it now, you need to move the datadir to your desired location and start Core with -choosedatadir to get the prompt for changing the datadir. Or you can change the command that runs Bitcoin Core to have the -datadir=<path> option where <path> is the path to the datadir. If you choose to do that, you will always need to run Bitcoin Core with that option.

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April 28, 2017, 11:02:03 PM
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Does the btc core check if the amount of space avaible is ok for sync?
No. It is impossible to know how big the blockchain actually is without having downloaded the entire thing. Bitcoin Core cannot tell you whether you have enough disk space as it does not know how much is needed.

If i run wallet in Data partition (no user here, just NTFS for stuff), does the wallet create a folder somewhere in Data or still sync the %appdata% folder?
Unless you have specified otherwise, the data directory will always be %appdata%/Bitcoin. You could have changed this when you first started the program. In order to change it now, you need to move the datadir to your desired location and start Core with -choosedatadir to get the prompt for changing the datadir. Or you can change the command that runs Bitcoin Core to have the -datadir=<path> option where <path> is the path to the datadir. If you choose to do that, you will always need to run Bitcoin Core with that option.

Thank you for the perfect reply. With datadir you mean the "Bitcoin" folder in %appData%?

That folder, is compatible with Linux wallet?

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April 28, 2017, 11:18:43 PM
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Thank you for the perfect reply. With datadir you mean the "Bitcoin" folder in %appData%?
Yes.

That folder, is compatible with Linux wallet?
Yes.

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