It took a long time to start and synchronize the Wallet. It appears that almost 8gb of files were created in the appdate/roaming/bitcoin folder.
As this is a considerable portion of my SSD:
- Are these files forever needed or can I remove them?
- Will these grow with all new transactions? If so, then they might grow into dozens of gb?
- Can these files be moved if they can not be deleted, without haviong to re-synch?
Thanks!
That's the blockchain and there's not much point having it on an SSD, the whole folder on a conventional drive and linked to the current location would be ok.
Thanks guys.
It's all downloaded and synched now, so might as well use the data and have plenty of space elsewhere.
I use the windows client and there is no (?) option to set the data directory, I can also not find any .conf file in the program folder. Is there a way to point the client to a new data directory?
Thanks!
I don't use windows myself but i'd say creating a shortcut to the .exe file that starts bitcoin-qt on windows with the argument -datadir "d:\locationofdatadir" would be easies.