Folder location of Flash cookies on Windows Vista

Solution 1:

Adobe Flash Player's Local Shared Objects/Flash cookies location

Also commonly known as "Flash cookies", they can be found on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 in the following directory:

%APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects

You can also access the Flash Settings Manager to manage the flash cookies with a UI.

About %APPDATA%

It is a common folder variable which translates to configured system paths and makes it easier for you to find locations with alternate paths and/or drive letter configurations.

Usually on Windows Vista and Windows 7 it translates to:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\

and on Windows XP usually translates to:

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\

Solution 2:

I know Paul asked about Vista, but here's the location on Mac OSX:

/Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects

Copying Flash Cookies from a Win7 installation (thanks to heavyd's answer for the location) to a Mac running OSX 10.5.7 worked fine :o)

Solution 3:

From here, it looks like a cookie would be located at %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\<random code>\<domain>\<path>\<object name>.sol, so I would look in

%APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects

and go from there.