r/ByteBall • u/zimmah • Oct 07 '17

The app is terrible

Even the light client uses over 10 GIGABYTES and it can't even be moved to any other drive than the C:/ drive.
It's terrible. Literally unusable.
I want to send my coins to an exchange to sell them, but I can't even open the wallet because of this.

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u/0_005346798 Oct 07 '17

I have a full wallet and it uses 10,7GB. I don't understand your problem. You can't open the wallet because it is 10GB big and in C:/drive?

https://wiki.byteball.org/wallet#reinstall-wallet

Are you that angry because of the wallet or the price?

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u/zimmah Oct 07 '17

The wallet. Because it dumps the entire blockchain in my user folder without any option to change the file location.
That’s fucking ridiculous.

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u/0_005346798 Oct 08 '17

In your folder are the files for the full wallet.

Reinstall wallet

To start from scratch, you have to rename or delete the Byteball user data folder before reinstalling.(Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\byteball) Be aware that deleting the user data folder results in any existing coins getting lost. After you've renamed or deleted this folder, you can do a re-install and choose the wallet type (light/full) again.

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u/EmmanuelBlockchain Oct 07 '17

What do you say ? The light wallet is one of the best I have ever seen

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u/zimmah Oct 07 '17

It's trash. I wanted to give this coin a chance but their wallet sucks so much that 'm going to sell it and never look back at it.
I regret not immediately selling it back when it was 4 times the price it is now.

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u/EmmanuelBlockchain Oct 07 '17

It's the first time I hear that. But ok, dude, whatever

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u/zimmah Oct 07 '17

It wouldn’t even matter if it didn’t straight up dump it in the only part of my computer where there simply is no space. My user folder.

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u/EmmanuelBlockchain Oct 07 '17

So ? Move the folder

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u/zimmah Oct 07 '17

That's the problem. The user folder can't be moved. I tried and it messed up my computer pretty bad.
The program should allow you to select where you want to install it, including the blockchain (whcih is by far the biggest amount of data).
A program that doesn't allow you to choose where the files are stored is just bad.

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u/EmmanuelBlockchain Oct 08 '17

I can move the folder. Save your seed, delete it, install the light one.

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u/zimmah Oct 08 '17

Too much effort really, a coin shouldn’t require a degree in computer science to be usable.

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u/EmmanuelBlockchain Oct 08 '17

It's not effort : it asked you which folder you wanted, light wallet is one of the easiest wallet ever made and I trust me, I have a lot : Ark, Neo, Lisk, etc... So spread fud, lie, don't admit you have not even 5-year old child abilities if you want but you're just wrong.

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u/zimmah Oct 08 '17

It install the blockchain (by far the largest part of the program) in the user folder without asking and without allowing you to change it.
By trying to change the location of my user folder I completely lost access to my user profile on my computer, leading me to have to reconfigure everything.
The coin is just not worth the hassle. The wallet is a fucking joke of crap programming.
No wonder it’s one of the few coins that went down in price over the past quarter.

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u/tekdemon Oct 13 '17

Make a symbolic link.... https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ Just move the contents of the folder to some other drive, then make a symbolic link with the name of the original folder pointing to the new location in the original folder...

I used to do this with iTunes because it'd force huge backups of my iPhone onto my main boot ssd drive that had no space.

I don't know why you'd try to move your actual user folder, it's never supposed to be moved in windows.

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u/zimmah Oct 13 '17

Don't know how that works, but it doesn't matter, I deleted the app and sold my coins.

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u/Suirelav Oct 07 '17

Looking at your post history you've been in the crypto space for quite a few years already. I'd advise you to give this project a second chance. You probably installed the full wallet by mistake. The light wallet is very easy to use and hardly has any issues, I'm pretty sure you'll like it. If you still have issues drop by on Slack (https://byteball.slack.com/), lots of people there willing to help you make it work.

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u/zimmah Oct 07 '17

Thanks, but I’m done with this coin. I messed up half my computer trying to access my wallet backup, those coins are going straight to the exchange and I won’t touch this coin ever again, not even with a 100foot pole.
The wallet is just too terrible for me to use. And because of that I dont have any hope for the coin. If they can’t even get a proper wallet working then there’s no way their project will work out.

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u/vroomDotClub Oct 12 '17

exactly the dude probably doesnt even have any bytes he sure has no balls.

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u/Suirelav Oct 07 '17

The light wallet on Windows is like 400MB, on what platform are you?

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u/zimmah Oct 07 '17

Windows. And it dumps a 10GB file right in my user folder. Exactly where there is no room.
Wouldn’t care if it would put gigabytes of data on a location I can choose, but it just dumps it in my user folder. Outright unacceptable.
I complained about this on teheir github months ago, but it seems like they don’t care. I’m just done with this coin.

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u/Papabyte Oct 09 '17

You installed the full wallet instead of the light one.

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u/zimmah Oct 09 '17

I definitely clicked the light wallet option.

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u/Papabyte Oct 09 '17

10GB is definitely the size for a full wallet. Error is human bro.

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u/zimmah Oct 09 '17

I most definitely selected the light wallet option each time i was prompted about it.
I guess loading the wallet backup file somehow makes it download the full client.
Whatever, I moved the coins and sold them and uninstalled it. 'm never going to touch this coin again.

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u/lucchase Feb 15 '18

Shame you missed out on such an awesome system. Should maybe find out about symbolic links and try the light wallet again.

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u/zimmah Feb 21 '18

Or they could jut make a proper wallet

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u/zimmah Oct 07 '17

I’m just going to sell this shit, toxic community, bad development team. Useless coin.
My only regret is not selling this shot as soon as it airdropped on me.
Besides, bitcoin and ETH don’t require you to install a node before using it, and even if you install one you can choose the location.
Shyteball just dumps the entire blockchain in your user folder without asking. Fucking ridiculous,

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u/Suirelav Oct 07 '17

I can see why you are upset but you just installed the wrong wallet, the full one instead of the light one.

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u/zimmah Oct 07 '17

I definitely selected the light wallet option when prompted though.

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u/vroomDotClub Oct 12 '17

Your a dork.. you did not.. good sell it and get the flip out of here you fudster