4 steps to move Ethereum data wallet to other disk on macOS!

in ethereum •  7 years ago 

I'm using Ethereum Wallet and Mist (0.8.10) from (https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/) on macOS Sierra 10.12.5 to store my Ethereum, my laptop is MacBook Pro early 2011 with 2 disk:

  • 01 SSD 120GB (Installed OS and Applications)
  • 01 HDD 500GB (Replace DVDRom with Caddy Bay store my data).

It is cool wallet and very easy to use. But a few days ago, I got a problem, my disk space is not enough to store Ethereum data, it's out of space to store anything. I spent a half hour to looking for solution to move my Ethereum wallet and I resolved my problem very easy. So If you also got same the problem, don't worry! Today, I will show you what did I do to move the wallet data to an other disk.

First

You should backup the keystore  folder to a safe place (keystore folder contains your wallet keys so it is very important to backup to safe place). By default, the wallet data was stored: /Users/your-user-account/Library/Ethereum/keystore. (Replace your-user-account by your user). 

Second

You need to move all file and folder in /Users/your-user-account/Library/Ethereum/ to other disk. In my case I moved to  /Volumes/DATA/CryptoCurrencies/ by mv command with Terminal.

 mv /Users/your-user-account/Library/Ethereum /Volumes/DATA/CryptoCurrencies/ 

It will be taken a while.

Third

Create symbolic link for the wallet by command ln -s. This command create a soft link from /Users/your-user-account/Library/Ethereum to /Volumes/DATA/CryptoCurrencies/Ethereum/. It's mean /Users/your-user-account/Library/Ethereum just a link and do not store any data, the real data will be stored /Volumes/DATA/CryptoCurrencies/Ethereum/

 ln -s /Volumes/DATA/CryptoCurrencies/Ethereum /Users/your-user-account/Library/ 

Fourth

Oops! It's seem just 3 steps to do! Now you can reopen Ethereum wallet and It should be work.

Enjoy it :D !

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useful post

Thanks!

I am trying to get an Ethereum wallet since last month. I download the zip file but I can't extract the data. This article is helpful. THANKS!!!

You are welcome, doloresreyes!
btw, when you download the zip file, you just need extract and run Ethereum Wallet, the data (ethereum blockchain) will be sync when you connect Internet.

thanks for your sharing

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