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How to Delete Bob Wallet's Data Dir In Advance of a Re-Sync
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Sometimes when doing a full re-sync of Bob Wallet, simply uninstalling won't be sufficient as chain and walletdb data remain on your device. This is often required when changes are made to the internal Handshake node that powers Bob.

Here are instructions (created 11/09/2020, for 0.6.0's stable release) for deleting the data dir.

macOS: uninstalling Bob from the mac Applications directory will not be enough. You also need to delete the Bob directory in Application Support.

  • Show hidden files.
  • Look in /Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Bob, and~/Library/Application Support/Bob. Or do a global search for hsd_data or Bob.
  • Delete the Bob folder before opening the .dmg.

Windows: uninstalling with the system uninstaller will not be enough. After uninstalling Bob with the system uninstaller, look for Bob in %AppData%\Roaming\Bob and delete that folder before reinstalling.

Linux: while Bob Wallet is not yet officially supported on Linux, macOS instructions may be informative. Grepping for hsd_data in the relevant user directory should be sufficient.

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To add for Linux, the directory is at ~/.config/Bob.

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