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droark

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Quote from: gangtraet on August 29, 2017, 10:38:55 AM

2) I also need two versions of the Armory app. Command line arguments do not really work on a Mac

They do work. Use the terminal to go to /Applications/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS/ and then run Armory from there with the appropriate CL flags. You can also use Automator to create a binary that'll do this automatically, although it's a really large binary (~2 MB) for what it is.

gangtraet

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Thanks! I am confident that once 0.96.2 is released for Mac, I will be able to get it to work.

goatpig

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This should help:

https://btcarmory.com/docs/pathing

gangtraet

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Hi,

I am trying to run both the BTC and the BCH chain on my Mac. My plan is

1) Have both Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Unlimited (cash edition) running on my mac. The block chain is on an external harddisk, with softlinks from ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/blocks to the relevant folder on my external disk. This works fine with Bitcoin Core.

On that disk, I created a new folder for the BCH chain where I ~~softlinked~~ hardlinked all block files but the last one (which I copied), I did this on the 1st August. So I should have a secondary chain for BCH. Now I want Bitcoin Unlimited to use this secondary block chain, that requires making it use another folder than ~/Library/.../Bitcoin for the configuration file and everything else. Does anyone know how to do this?

2) I also need two versions of the Armory app. Command line arguments do not really work on a Mac, so I imagine making a new ArmoryCash.app folder, softlink everything from the Armory.app folder into that one except the startup script, where I can add command line arguments to use the Bitcoin Cash folder (and an alternate Armory data folder as well). Does this sound reasonable?

I could of course also run the BCH chain on a different machine, but that would be very inconvenient.

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