Where does flash player save permanent files to, like game saves, or configurations?

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I'd like to grab a copy of a save file I have for a flash game (to be fair, there's at least 20 hours of gaming in that save).

I assume that different browsers and different operating systems do their own thing, but to know how different browser/OS combos do things would be useful extra information.

I use google chrome and I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.

u1686_grawity · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-19T19:17:11.473

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Linux: ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/
Windows: %AppData%\Macromedia\Flash Player\
Mac OS X: ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/

Plugin behavior, and therefore Flash LSO location, is browser-independent most of the time.

Also see Local Shared Objects on Wikipedia.

edited Mar 19 '11 at 19:17

answered Mar 19 '11 at 19:06

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this no longer seems to be true for Mac OS X. Chrome saves to ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash/WritableRoot/#SharedObjects/ – Michael Merchant Aug 05 '15 at 06:29

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 19:34

On Ubuntu 12.04, I found Google Chrome's flash plugin also stores LSOs in

~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash/

More specifically, I found my game saves in

~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash/WritableRoot/#SharedObjects/

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 26 '13 at 06:15

Another folder to look at is:

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/File System/p/00

Those last two folders might be called differently because of randomization, but I found that, even after I cleaned my cache a few times, looked at the locations of the above mentioned comments, there was still a very big file with no special name or file extension stored there.

It would've been very unlikely that Chrome need this to function.

Where does flash player save permanent files to, like game saves, or configurations?

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