Thank you very much: vv181, Edwardard and nc50lc. For your help/advice.
Everything worked perfectly.
Best regards...
Topic: Change the path to the ~/.electrum folder on linux (Read 163 times)
Thank you very much!
I'll try... and I'll comment later...
I'll try... and I'll comment later...
Another question: Should I open electrum first and from the menu open some terminal to execute these commands? or do I have to open the regular Linux terminal?
Electrum should be opened with those command line options.In the terminal, open electrum with the "-D ELECTRUM_PATH" global command line option (command depends on how you installed Electrum);
e.g.: $ ./run_electrum -D ELECTRUM_PATH
And also do I need to copy the content of /.electrum to the new directory? or is it created automatically?
A fresh data directory will be created; if you want to keep your old settings and wallet, copy it.
Ok, thanks to both of you... I will try it.
Another question: Should I open electrum first and from the menu open some terminal to execute these commands? or do I have to open the regular Linux terminal?
And also do I need to copy the content of /.electrum to the new directory? or is it created automatically?
Another question: Should I open electrum first and from the menu open some terminal to execute these commands? or do I have to open the regular Linux terminal?
And also do I need to copy the content of /.electrum to the new directory? or is it created automatically?
to clarify: ELECTRUM_PATH should be something like this: /home/user/.New folder/whatever?
should it be in quotes?
I think first one is correct and you dont need it to be in quotesshould it be in quotes?
Either option is a valid choice. But if you don't use quotes, you need to escape any space within the file path with a backslash.
Code:
"/home/user/.New folder/whatever"
#or
/home/user/.New\ folder/whatever
to clarify: ELECTRUM_PATH should be something like this: /home/user/.New folder/whatever?
should it be in quotes?
or ELECTRUM_PATH is an environment variable that must be specified inside some configuration file?
I think first one is correct and you dont need it to be in quotes, try and let us know.should it be in quotes?
or ELECTRUM_PATH is an environment variable that must be specified inside some configuration file?
Currently Electrum defaults to: user/home/.electrum/wallets/default_wallet on linux OS
You can use -D to change the Electrum datadir and -w to use a custom wallet file path.
Code:
-D ELECTRUM_PATH, --dir ELECTRUM_PATH
-w WALLET_PATH, --wallet WALLET_PATH
Thank you for your response!
to clarify: ELECTRUM_PATH should be something like this: /home/user/.New folder/whatever?
should it be in quotes?
or ELECTRUM_PATH is an environment variable that must be specified inside some configuration file?
You can use -D to change the Electrum datadir and -w to use a custom wallet file path.
Code:
-D ELECTRUM_PATH, --dir ELECTRUM_PATH
-w WALLET_PATH, --wallet WALLET_PATH
Hello everyone!
is there any way to change the path to the ~/.electrum folder on linux?
or move the wallet file out of /.electrum?
my idea is to move datadir to a more hidden location.
is there any way to change the path to the ~/.electrum folder on linux?
or move the wallet file out of /.electrum?
my idea is to move datadir to a more hidden location.
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