Where does PERSISTENT file system storage store with chrome?
For me, at least on Mac OSX, they're stored under /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/File System for me. If you're using profiles, there will be profile directories instead of Default. However, each origin's saved files/folders are obfuscated under directories that won't be easy for you to interact with.
For debugging the Filesystem API, you have a few options:
- Use this extension to view/remove files.
- See the tips here: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/08/Debugging-the-Filesystem-APIThat includes viewing stored files very easily using the
filesystem:URLs. - Drop the Filesystem Playground demo (http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/filesystem/filer.js/demos/index.html) into your origin. You can use that to view/rename/delete files/folders easily.
- Chrome DevTools now has support for the Filesystem API for viewing the files stored under an origin. To use that, you will need to enable the Developer Tools experiments in
about:flags, restart, hit the gear in the devtools (lower right corner), and enable the 'FileSystem inspection' under the experimental tab.
Just for completeness: on linux it goes into ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/File\ System/
On Windows XP, it is here: c:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\File System\.
On Windows 7, the location is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\File System.
It's not very useful to browse it because file and dir names are obfuscated (but content in files is unchanged).
As ebidel wrote the best way is using browser of filesystem: urls that incorporated into Chrome. It's excellent! You can get the url using fs.root.toURL() where fs is a FileSystem object that you get, for example, from window.webkitRequestFileSystem().