How can I uninstall IPFS completely and restart everything from scratch and get a new peer id?












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How can I uninstall IPFS completely and restart everything from scratch and get a new peer id? I tried to delete the go-ipfs folder but I can still get Error: ipfs configuration file already exists! when I do ipfs init.










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    How can I uninstall IPFS completely and restart everything from scratch and get a new peer id? I tried to delete the go-ipfs folder but I can still get Error: ipfs configuration file already exists! when I do ipfs init.










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          The data store as well as the config will be stored in a subdirectory .ipfs of your home directory. So if you are on a UNIX based system $HOME/.ipfs. You would have to delete this directory and then run ipfs init to get an empty store and a new peer id.



          Note that you can also configure the location of the store directory using the IPFS_PATH environment variable, which can be useful to get the IPFS store on a different mount point.






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            The data store as well as the config will be stored in a subdirectory .ipfs of your home directory. So if you are on a UNIX based system $HOME/.ipfs. You would have to delete this directory and then run ipfs init to get an empty store and a new peer id.



            Note that you can also configure the location of the store directory using the IPFS_PATH environment variable, which can be useful to get the IPFS store on a different mount point.






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              The data store as well as the config will be stored in a subdirectory .ipfs of your home directory. So if you are on a UNIX based system $HOME/.ipfs. You would have to delete this directory and then run ipfs init to get an empty store and a new peer id.



              Note that you can also configure the location of the store directory using the IPFS_PATH environment variable, which can be useful to get the IPFS store on a different mount point.






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                The data store as well as the config will be stored in a subdirectory .ipfs of your home directory. So if you are on a UNIX based system $HOME/.ipfs. You would have to delete this directory and then run ipfs init to get an empty store and a new peer id.



                Note that you can also configure the location of the store directory using the IPFS_PATH environment variable, which can be useful to get the IPFS store on a different mount point.






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                The data store as well as the config will be stored in a subdirectory .ipfs of your home directory. So if you are on a UNIX based system $HOME/.ipfs. You would have to delete this directory and then run ipfs init to get an empty store and a new peer id.



                Note that you can also configure the location of the store directory using the IPFS_PATH environment variable, which can be useful to get the IPFS store on a different mount point.







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