Resyncing and deleting chaindata directory

Question

I'm about to do a resync of the blockchain but as I was deleting my chaindata directory from:

~/Library/Ethereum/chaindata

I noticed there was also another chaindata directory located here:

~/Library/Ethereum/geth/chaindata

This seems a bit confusing to me. Am I supposed to delete both? What is the difference between the two? I'm not sure if the chaindata directory existed before I updated geth to 1.5.9 today. I'm using Mist if that helps.

Answer 1

I think instead of deleting it manually you want to use

geth removedb 

Sorry I can't answer the rest.

Answer 2

The location of the chaindata folder was changed in version 1.5.0 of Geth (I think - I can't immediately see it in the changeset... ).

It was moved from ~/Library/Ethereum/chaindata to ~/Library/Ethereum/geth/chaindata, with equivalent changes being made to the Windows and Linux locations.

It's safe to remove them both. geth removedb may only remove the directory from the new location, in which case you should manually remove it from the old location as well using rm -rf ~/Library/Ethereum/chaindata.