From ce225a4d59ca8713baf3c956179cb9783b30363c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karissa McKelvey Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:29:42 -0800 Subject: move tech docs to index --- technical.md | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 technical.md (limited to 'technical.md') diff --git a/technical.md b/technical.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3c68953..0000000 --- a/technical.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -## Hidden folder - -Dat stores its data in a hidden folder that is stored by default in the user's home directory. - -``` -~/.dat -``` - -Because of this, data is only ever downloaded once. That is, if you have multiple projects that use the same data (perhaps at different versions) on the same machine, dat will first check the global `.dat` folder to see if the data has already been downloaded before querying the network. - -The global `.dat` folder has: - -``` -$ ls ~/.dat -db -config -``` - -`dat` will first check `/root/.dat` and then `~/.dat`. So, if you want to have the .dat available globally, move the folder to `/root/.dat`. -- cgit v1.2.3