Aral Balkan

If you're storing information in the encrypted data store in your AIR app, you'll probably want to nuke that data on occasion while testing. You'll find the app-specific files for your application (on OS X) under:

~/Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/AIR/ELS/yourApplication

Update: As David pointed out in the comments, there's also a reset() method if you want to nuke the ELS from within your app. In my case, my app doesn't need this functionality but I need to test with an empty ELS sometimes so I prefer to nuke the folder.

Also, as David points out, the SQLite DB, etc. are most like stored in your application storage directory: Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/[applicationid]. (That'll teach me to double-check even my simple note-to-self blog posts; thanks, David!)

Comments

• Hi Aral, Not sure what you meant exactly here, so sorry if I misunderstood you, but I'd like to elaborate a bit on this. The folder where the EncryptedLocalStore (ELS) data is stored is indeed Users/[user]/Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/AIR/ELS/[applicationid] (+some random key depending on whether you're testing the app under ADL). Other data like files (such as SQLite DBs) are stored elsewhere, basically where the developer (you, in that case) has chosen to store them, which most likely is the application storage directory: Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/[applicationid]. Btw, if, as a developer, you need to nuke the ELS data for your app, there's a special method for that : reset().

  by David Deraedt on 2009-05-27 09:29:36

• Hello! Thanks for THAT hint, I was just searching for that and didn't find it right away :-) JH

  by JH on 2009-05-30 12:16:57