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I already have the ethereum wallet running on my laptop, when I exit it and go to run geth in terminal it redownloads the entire blockchain again? Same thing happens when I go from geth to the wallet.

Anyway to avoid this?

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  • Can you provide some details on versions used, OS, if you are running both under the same user account, etc? – J-B Feb 10 '16 at 07:12
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    If you have a running geth instance, mist should simply connect to it. Maybe add some more details about your ethereum appdata directory structure, os, versions, etc. – q9f Feb 10 '16 at 09:04

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Yes, it will re-download unless you specify a same --datadir for geth and Mist.

See How to set a different datadir in Mist?

You can start geth using --datadir "PATH/BASED/ON/OS" flag to use the same blockchain.

Follow issue #210 and #70 both deals with the directory of the blockchain

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