Where are unsaved files stored

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#1

When I start atom it brings up my untitled/unsaved files. I’m curious, where are these files stored?
I’m on Mac/OS.

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#2

They’re stored in one of two places:

The old way was to store them in ~/.atom/storage but we recently redid how package data was serialized on exit for performance reasons, so now things should be stored in IndexedDB. You may still have an ~/.atom/storage directory if you’ve been using Atom for a while even though new stuff should end up in IndexedDB.

#3

Did application.json get changed?

#4

Yes, you’ll notice that with the current stable release if you:

  1. Exit Atom
  2. Delete ~/.atom/storage if it exists
  3. Start Atom and open some files in your project
  4. Exit Atom

~/.atom/storage will not be recreated because it is no longer used.

#5

Negative. 1.9.9 still creates an application.json file on exit.

#6

Well, in any case, the unsaved files are not stored there anymore.

#7

So where exactly is the buffer content stored inside the IndexedDB, please?

In case of ~/.atom/storage, there used to be JSON files which contained the buffer text inside the field project.buffers[].text.

I have opened the Developer tools inside Atom, opened the Application tab, IndexedDB AtomEnvironments which contains a single table states. There are similarly looking JSON objects stored (they contain a field value.project.buffers[] but I’m unable to find the buffer content anywhere.

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#8

Did you ever figure out where the buffer content is stored?