<p>Turns out in order to use symlinks accross devices, one needs to alter the <code>nix</code> command to mount these locations.</p>
<p>See this answer: <a href="https://cardano.stackexchange.com/a/9340">https://cardano.stackexchange.com/a/9340</a></p>

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2023-11-18T22:52:01.793Z
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Sven Eppler
<p>Since my partition with <code>/home</code> on it started to fill up, i relocated the folder <code>~/.local/share/Daedalus/mainnet/chain</code> onto another drive.</p>
<p>After moving the files and symlinking to the new location, i restarted Daedalus. Now all my wallets are gone and Daedalus is resyncing from 0%. (Which is now ongoing for 16hours and is currently at 72%...)</p>
<p>This is confusing to me, since it was perfectly synced before moving the <code>chain</code> folder, so i would only expect to re-sync the new blocks while moving (like less than 1%). And especially that all my wallets are now gone, is weird to me (not a big deal, of course i've got the seed phrases for all of them).</p>
<p>But this is rather inconvenient and i don't understand why this is happening. Can anyone explain this behavior?</p>

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Why do i loose all wallets and need to resync after symlinking chain folder?
# Why do i loose all wallets and need to resync after symlinking chain folder?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-11-17)

Since my partition with `/home` on it started to fill up, i relocated the folder `~/.local/share/Daedalus/mainnet/chain` onto another drive.

After moving the files and symlinking to the new location, i restarted Daedalus. Now all my wallets are gone and Daedalus is resyncing from 0%. (Which is now ongoing for 16hours and is currently at 72%...)

This is confusing to me, since it was perfectly synced before moving the `chain` folder, so i would only expect to re-sync the new blocks while moving (like less than 1%). And especially that all my wallets are now gone, is weird to me (not a big deal, of course i've got the seed phrases for all of them).

But this is rather inconvenient and i don't understand why this is happening. Can anyone explain this behavior?

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### Answer by username_0 on 2023-11-18. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

Turns out in order to use symlinks accross devices, one needs to alter the `nix` command to mount these locations.

See this answer: <https://cardano.stackexchange.com/a/9340>


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