Using the main Bitcoin-Qt Client, can you change where it stores the block chain?

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I don't want 12 gigabytes stored on my boot drive. Can I change where the Bitcoin-Qt stores the block chain?

Darek Bridges

Posted 2013-05-10T23:05:29.743

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Question was closed 2013-05-11T16:40:19.310

Asking about how to change the default storage location has been posted many, many times. The future canonical question is probably Bitcoin-Qt setup: Change block-chain file location, settings? documentation?. Possible duplicate of Bitcoin-Qt setup: Change block-chain file location, settings? documentation?.

– Peter Mortensen – 2014-08-01T13:50:34.197

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You surely can. Just add -datadir parameter to the command line, when starting bitcoin-qt. For example:

bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=D:\BITCOINDATA

Gigi

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