How do I change the directory where daedalus stores its DB and logs in Linux?

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Here’s a little howto for Windows systems based on version 1.4

  1. stop Daedalus
  2. open C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Daedalusin file explorer
  3. move the subfolder /DB-1.0 to the new location and ensure that your personal user account has read&write permissions

Note: As this is the public blockchain data folder, it’s not crucial to protect it in a special way. But that doesn’t apply to the other folders and files in the original Daedalus folder. Moveing them to some other location should be done very carefully.

  1. open the file C:\Program Files\Daedalus\launcher-config.yaml in a text editor and change the nodeDbPath parameter. For example when you moved the DB folder to D:\daedalus then add the full absolute path before the existing DB-1.0

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  1. now safe this config file and launch Daedalus

In case your Computer has not that much free space left on the system partion (C:) by moving this DB folder to another partition will free up around 3.5 GB of diskspace.

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