how to safely move wallets? the blockchains are filling up one hard drive...

[dogechode]

Sorry if this is a retarded question. I searched about this but the posts/articles I found don't seem to address the fundamental reason I am asking.

My problem is I have many wallets and over time as the block chains grow, they eat a ton of space in C:\users\dogechode\appdata\roaming on my main drive. Now I believe I could back up my wallet.dat file but then even if I move the wallet program folder from like C:\wallets\shitcoin to say, D:\wallets\shitcoin and copy the wallet.dat to there, won't it still try to keep storing the blockchain in C:\Users\dogechode\appdata\roaming\shitcoin ?

Please help! Thanks!

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[BitCoinPokerBro]

Why not download the a new wallet and send the coins to it instead of trying to transfer the wallets?

[jimhsu]

I simply move the files, then symlink the files from the new hard drive to the old.

Unix can do this with "ln -s", or for windows, http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

[anon4250158]

1. Copy entire dogecoin folder from appdata\roaming to new location, say D:\coins\
2. find the dogecoin qt, right click and create shortcut
3. Right click on new shortcut --> Properties --> shortcut tab
4. in "target" box add -datadir="D:\coins\Dogecoin" to the end.  This specifies an alternate directory for blockchain, wallet, etc instead of appdata\roaming


Example of what target box should contain (all quotes are intentional; include them)

"C:\Path\to\QT\dogecoin-qt.exe" -datadir="D:\coins\Dogecoin"

5. Use the shortcut to start the dogecoin wallet from now on.
6. Once you verify that the wallet loads properly (and your address is what it used to be), you can delete the dogecoin folder from appdata\roaming

PS. Always have a backup copy of all of your wallet.dat files from all your coins in another location (preferably not on the same hard drive).