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anyone ever had a similar issue where the directory exists but bitcoin-cli isn't recognizing it? Perhaps this is related to me setting the folder up as a symlink to my external HDD?

Thank you! aaronson

-Mac-mini:~ $ bitcoin-cli -regtest generate 1
Error reading configuration file: specified data directory "/Users/---/Library/Application\ Support/Bitcoin" does not exist.
-Mac-mini:~ $ cd /Users/---/Library/Application\ Support/Bitcoin
-Mac-mini:Bitcoin $ ls
banlist.dat bitcoind.pid    chainstate  db.log      peers.dat
bitcoin.conf    blocks      database    debug.log   wallet.dat
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  • Do not use backslash and space symbols in folder name
    – amaclin
    Commented Nov 30, 2018 at 19:12
  • @aaronson If that was the solution, can either of you turn it into an answer so it can be marked accepted?
    – Pieter Wuille
    Commented Dec 1, 2018 at 18:02

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Do not use backslash and space symbols in folder name

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I just encountered this issue, too, and removing spaces (escaped or otherwise) appears to have solved the issue.

Like the OP, I was using a path containing Application\ Support.

$HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Bitcoin is the MacOS default, though, so hopefully most people won't need to set that explicitly.

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  • Curiously, though, datadir seems to be autogenerated in my bitcoin.conf file every time I run bitcoind. That leads to issues on future runs whenever I'm using the default path, which contains Application Support
    – CypherPoet
    Commented Dec 20, 2018 at 5:17

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