Where is .NET "Isolated Storage" stored?

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Where would the physical files be?

I think it depends on which technology you are using. The location is different for WinRT apps, Silverlight app etc. Also it depends on OS, Roming profiles etc. — Mangesh, Mar 24 '16 at 13:51

score 32 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '08 at 02:56

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It depends on the OS and whether or not roaming user profiles are enabled.

For example, on XP, with non-roaming profiles, the location is

<SYSTEMDRIVE>\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\IsolatedStorage

On Vista with roaming profile storage,

<SYSTEMDRIVE>\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\IsolatedStorage

See an Introduction to Isolated Storage for more info.

answered Nov 09 '08 at 02:56

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in case of ASP.NET applications it is in ` \Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\ ` – AaA Dec 24 '13 at 09:16
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in my case on 7 it was `%userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Silverlight\is` – Eldritch Conundrum Aug 04 '14 at 15:56

Mark Sowul · Answer 2 · 2018-04-12T15:17:26.430

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%LocalAppData%\IsolatedStorage / %AppData%\IsolatedStorage.

I didn't find them under "Microsoft"

edited Apr 12 '18 at 15:17

answered Mar 05 '12 at 02:23

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same here, for a winforms app I was developing in Windows 8, I found it under %LocalAppData%\IsolatedStorage – Nikolaos Georgiou Jul 02 '14 at 07:02
I rejected the edit because it was an ungrammatical typo; feel free to make it again – Mark Sowul Apr 12 '18 at 15:19

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 29 '12 at 10:36

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System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(
    Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData) + 
    "\\IsolatedStorage"
    );

answered Mar 29 '12 at 10:36

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 24 '12 at 16:38

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I've also seen it under %ProgramData%\IsolatedStorage (so often C:\ProgramData\IsolatedStorage).

This particular case was a Windows Server 2008 with IIS site-related data.

answered Oct 24 '12 at 16:38

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This is where it was on Windows 10 for my ClickOnce WPF application. – xr280xr Aug 07 '19 at 22:13

score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 01 '14 at 18:22

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I'm using Windows 8.1. On my PC its in C:\Users\mangesh\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Silverlight\<followed by some random folder names>

In 'Silverlight' folder there are many random folders. You should find your files in one of these folders.

answered Apr 01 '14 at 18:22

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score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 15 '11 at 19:25

On my XP workstation I found it under c:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Silverlight\is\XXXXXXXXXXXXX Where xxxxxxxx appears to be a random directory name. (under that if you wander around enough you should find the store for your particular app...)

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 08 '18 at 15:16

Location differs per IsolationStorage scope

Local user     [LocalApplicationData]\IsolatedStorage
Roaming user   [ApplicationData]\IsolatedStorage
Machine        [CommonApplicationData]\IsolatedStorage

The folders can be retrieved by Environment.GetFolderPath method.

Windows 2016 has it like this

Local user     C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\IsolatedStorage
Roaming user   C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\IsolatedStorage
Machine        C:\ProgramData\IsolatedStorage

More details can be found here.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 30 '21 at 19:21

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When accessed/created by a system account, I found the folder here:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\IsolatedStorage

answered Sep 30 '21 at 19:21

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Where is .NET "Isolated Storage" stored?

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