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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.

Info on passing arguments in shortcuts:
http://superuser.com/questions/29569/how-to-add-command-line-options-to-shortcut

Thanks, that is very useful anyway.
I just downloaded the Multibit wallet instead, which seems to work without downloading all blocks. Transfer from the Old wallet to the Multibit wallet is instant, so I assume I can transfer all and close/delete/purge the old wallet and all blocks?

That assumption is correct. Wait for at least a few confirmations though. It's unlikely that you'll double-spend it yourself, but you can never be too sure Wink