Where is .NET "Isolated Storage" stored?

Question

Where would the physical files be?

Youlandayoulton

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. – Jeff

Answer 1

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.

Sheehan

in case of ASP.NET applications it is in ` \Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\ ` – Parachute

in my case on 7 it was %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Silverlight\is – Chuppah

Answer 2

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

I didn't find them under "Microsoft"

Persuasion

same here, for a winforms app I was developing in Windows 8, I found it under %LocalAppData%\IsolatedStorage – Bronchiectasis

I rejected the edit because it was an ungrammatical typo; feel free to make it again – Persuasion

Answer 3

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

Shrew

Answer 4

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...)

Asturias

Answer 5

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.

Emboly

This is where it was on Windows 10 for my ClickOnce WPF application. – Devinna

Answer 6

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.

Jeff

Answer 7

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.

Timi

Answer 8

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

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

Prompter

Answer 9

On Windows 11:

C:\Users\vboxuser\AppData\Local\IsolatedStorage\

Barsky

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