How to use Symbolic Link on Windows to change the location of the blockchain data

in #cryptocurrency • 7 years ago

Hey folks,

on my first days I tried to synchronise my Musicoin desktop wallet on my 120 GB SSD drive.... i had no idea that the filesize of the data is 40+ GB :)

I remembered that they introduced symbolic links in windows. Thats like a shortcut for folders. Any programm will think the symbolic folder is areal folder. The real folder instead is on another location, e.g. on your external harddrive. This will work for any blockchain or whatever data... eg your download folder.

You can achieve this by the following (you need admin rights on win 7):
# Open a cmd.exe
# change to
cd C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAMW\AppData\Roaming

# If there is already a Musicoin folder move it to the location you want it e.g to drive Z:

# use the following command to create a Symlinkfolder named Musicoin to a folder called Musicoinnew on drive Z:
mklink /D Musicoin Z:\Musicoinnew

Thats it you can start your desktop wallet now and it will save all data that belongs to the Musicoin folder on drive c to your new folder on drive Z

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