How to mount a Bitcoin folder on another drive?

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Bartholomaeus2013-12-20 09:59:46

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Bartholomaeus, 2013-12-20 09:59:46

Greetings!
The problem is known - the official bitcoin client is installed on any disk, but it puts its folder with blocks (currently ~ 15 GB) on the C drive that I have an SSD and, accordingly, small. I searched on the net but found only advice like: "create a .dat or .cmd file with the content start "" "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=F:\Bitcoin but how to name the file and where it is not clear to me to place it.Can you explain or tell me another way?

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Stepan, 2013-12-20
@Bartholomaeus

Create a shortcut to the Bitcoin-QT program on the desktop, write -datadir=F:\Bitcoin in the shortcut properties. Run the wallet only through this shortcut.

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Mikhail Shatilov, 2013-12-20
@iproger

A similar problem .. was.
Not a profitable occupation in the main, so I decided the issue of demolition.

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blackhupia, 2014-05-11
@blackhupia

I explain: I myself had exactly the same problem, I also googled and found many options, but none of them came up right away. half an hour later, the crap finally came out. so - I have Windows 7 - I created a bat file (that is, I created a txt file and then changed the extension to bat) of an arbitrary name (in my case - new way.bat) in the folder of the installed program (in my case - c:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin) with text: start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=D:\data\soft\bitcoin
The first part is the path to the program's executable file, the second is the path to the folder with blocks and other nonsense that I transferred to drive D (and it was before that on drive C in the Users\tennisplayer\Application data\Roaming folder). The whole trick is that you do not need to stick a single character and do not write anything superfluous. In my case, I first wrote start "" "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=D:\data\soft\bitcoin (without (x86)), then I forgot to put a space before (x86) etc. but the text that I wrote to you is correct, I copied it from the actual batfile. Now the wallet looks in another folder, and 21.5 gigs have been freed on the system disk;)