Tried again and my hard drive filled up before I got the whole BC Dl'd.  I transferred to an external drive and when I open bitcoin core it read the BC data just fine and fully sync's.  

I am on ububntu and I reinstalled the .96.4 gcc 4.7 version https://btcarmory.com/0.96.4-release/

When I open armory the logs says it can find the data from the dir on the local disk.  I couldn't get any links I found to work...how do I point it to my external drive.

thx!