-wallet= Specify wallet file (within data directory) (default: wallet.dat)
Any idea why this is ?
I would like to use my main laptop SSD to house the wallet.dat, and use an external USB drive to house the blockchain and other related data, and Bitcoin-Qt was having none of it.
Any idea what the rationale is for not allowing a different path to your wallet.dat ?
As far as I've read is not really a good idea to split contents of the bitcoin folder, it's better to have it all on the same place. I saw people asking if they could split the chainstate files to make it faster by putting them in an SSD and they got told that its not a good idea..
But if you want to change the data folder:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe" -datadir=d:\BitcoinData
This will put the entire data folder in another hard disk called D: in a folder called "BitcoinDat" for example.