# Local shared objects, anyone know where they're stored?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/local-shared-objects-anyone-know-where-theyre-stored/8725
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**Created:** [November 27, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/local-shared-objects-anyone-know-where-theyre-stored/8725 "2002-11-27T06:35:13Z")
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### Author:  [@Marc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Marc)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/local-shared-objects-anyone-know-where-theyre-stored/8725/1 "2002-11-27T06:35:13Z")
Hi all,
I’m learning about local Shared Objects, flash MX’s equivalent of cookies, with some excellent direction from pom with his tutorial on this. I scanned through the tech notes at macromedia that pom linked to for more on shared objects, especially to find out where and how they are stored on the computer, the latter being suffiently answered. Check me if I’ve missed something, but I just can’t find anything about where they are stored.
As shared objects are not generated by the browser but by the flash player would they be stored in the tempory internet files folder like cookies are or not? I call the object to be stored locally user\_profile
```php
SharedObject.getLocal("user_profile");
```
but I can’t find it in my tempory internet files even though it stores the info I want it to when I come back on the refresh. Where are these things stored? I just got to know.
Hope this is not a stupid question its just I have to know things like this or as they drive me up the wall untill I find out. Could someone direct me some more on this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/local-shared-objects-anyone-know-where-theyre-stored/8725/2 "2002-11-27T07:44:09Z")
wow… that’s pretty cool. Can you direct me to the thread where pom provided links?
that looks soooooooooo easy now. (cookies in 5.0 were a pain in the tukus.)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/local-shared-objects-anyone-know-where-theyre-stored/8725/3 "2002-11-27T08:03:13Z")
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action\_scripts/local\_shared\_object/](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/local_shared_object/)
and the other
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/local\_so.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/local_so.htm)
they’re at the bottem or his tutorial 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2002, 8:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/local-shared-objects-anyone-know-where-theyre-stored/8725/4 "2002-11-27T08:29:10Z")
danka…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/local-shared-objects-anyone-know-where-theyre-stored/8725/5 "2002-11-29T21:25:32Z")
Try searching for \*.sol using you OS Utility.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/local-shared-objects-anyone-know-where-theyre-stored/8725/6 "2002-11-29T23:38:02Z")
Nice one! Found the little things. After finding them, I suddenly found this following information. Typical!
In windows they are defaulted to the Flash Player directory in the Application Data folder ect. This can be overrided by passing a value for the localPath parameter of the SharedObject.getLocal command. I read this at the link below:
[http://www.ok.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yusuke/asp/flashcom/flashcom\_help/flashcom/html/04\_tips\_and\_tricks31.html](http://www.ok.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yusuke/asp/flashcom/flashcom_help/flashcom/html/04_tips_and_tricks31.html)
Interesting
:nerd: 🙂