<p><strong>No</strong>, you'll need to make space for a full copy of the blockchain somewhere. AFAIK, Armory rescans the blockchain in order to build its own database only <em>after</em> Bitcoin Core has fully synchronized. Therefore, Armory needs access to a full copy of the blockchain which is currently about 118GiB. Armory's database itself then will take more than 20GiB additionally.</p>

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Murch
<p>If you are using a BitcoinD server then you can enable pruning which is enabled since v0.12 (with Wallet support - see <a href="https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0</a>).
You can then specify the amount of space you want to allocate for the blockchain data. For instance 550Mb or 5Gb - entirely up to you.</p>

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2017-01-19T15:28:46.277Z
I would expect pruning to be incompatible with Armory (but I don't know for sure).
Pieter Wuille
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As of Armory 0.96.5 this is still the case, that one needs full (not pruned) bitcoind blocks history for Armory to work properly.
user28206
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Alex
<p>I'm recovering a wallet from Armory and the blockchain is taking too much space. My HD is 500 GB big but none of my partitions have more then 70 GB left. The folder <code>.bitcoin/blocks</code> already uses 37 GB and Armory is only at 52%. Any solution to this?</p>

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Hey Zaico, I've edited your question with a more speaking title pertaining to what I understand your question to aim at. I hope you agree, otherwise please feel free to further edit and improve it.
Murch
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Does Armory work with a pruned copy of the blockchain?
Zaico
# Does Armory work with a pruned copy of the blockchain?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-19)

I'm recovering a wallet from Armory and the blockchain is taking too much space. My HD is 500 GB big but none of my partitions have more then 70 GB left. The folder `.bitcoin/blocks` already uses 37 GB and Armory is only at 52%. Any solution to this?

**Tags:** blockchain, client, armory, storage-footprint, pruning

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Hey username_0, I've edited your question with a more speaking title pertaining to what I understand your question to aim at. I hope you agree, otherwise please feel free to further edit and improve it.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-01-21. Score: 3

**No**, you'll need to make space for a full copy of the blockchain somewhere. AFAIK, Armory rescans the blockchain in order to build its own database only *after* Bitcoin Core has fully synchronized. Therefore, Armory needs access to a full copy of the blockchain which is currently about 118GiB. Armory's database itself then will take more than 20GiB additionally.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-01-19. Score: -1

If you are using a BitcoinD server then you can enable pruning which is enabled since v0.12 (with Wallet support - see <https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0>).
You can then specify the amount of space you want to allocate for the blockchain data. For instance 550Mb or 5Gb - entirely up to you.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: I would expect pruning to be incompatible with Armory (but I don't know for sure).  
> **username_4**: As of Armory 0.96.5 this is still the case, that one needs full (not pruned) bitcoind blocks history for Armory to work properly.  

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