So here's the method I use to find where does an app store data. If an application displays the same type of data, usually text, after a system restart (or after you fully close & reopen it), then it must save that data to one or more files, either in the application folder, either on some other profile folder stored somewhere else. In order to find out which file/files is that written to, you have to determine which file changes size. 1) first you note (or remember) what is the initial folder size of the application's folder, down to the last bytes, by right-click and checking properties. Watch only size, not size on disk! Then you start the app and write some text (or whatever kind of data), and after that you close it. Now re-check the size, and if it's not changed repeat the process further described, but applied to all folders in the system partition (and don't forget before to activate the option to see al hidden files, including hidden system files). 2) next you select one half (or plus one if the number is not even) of the first next level of folders and files and find out their size; do the same for the other. Next you start the application, write some text, close and check again the sizes. Then you see which half changed in size, if only one half changed then continue the process of open-write-close and checking size, by taking sub-halves till you find which folder is changing, then continue to the sub-folder until you find the exact file. If there are changes in both the halves you divide each of them until, again, you find the only files and folders which change. Usually it's just one. -Then, depending the type of data you were writing, you can try opening the file with a specific program, if you need to recover data. Some kind of files are hardcoded and can't be opened with anything else than the program that created them, other are simple txt, xml or other types of files, sometimes with different extensions but they still can be opened in Notepad for example. -If you don't need to open the file you can backup it up, if you need to have a safe copy, or set a rule in a back-up program for periodic back-up.
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