NSuserdefaults Location

Question

I cant find location of nsuserdefaults for my app. In same question solution was /users/your user name/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator//Applications. But i have no in iPhone Simulatar dir.

Possibly duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6662679/iphone-where-nsuserdefaults-get-stored — Awesome.Apple, Mar 15 '16 at 08:36
im using Simulator, not real device. also symbols in angle brackets was deleted... — ios newbie, Mar 15 '16 at 08:40
`NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true)` — onmyway133, Apr 14 '20 at 21:50

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '16 at 09:54

You can do this

Search for documents directory path

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; // Get documents folder
NSLog(@"documentsDirectory=%@",documentsDirectory);

That will come as

   /Users/user/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/270568AE-FB4B-4C57-8819-4D99324D0689/data/Containers/Data/Application/C614A497-971F-4686-9162-3A614AB2C702/Documents

now go upto

 /Users/user/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/270568AE-FB4B-4C57-8819-4D99324D0689/data/Containers/Data/Application/C614A497-971F-4686-9162-3A614AB2C702

Then

/Library/Preferences/....plist

.plist file stores NSUserdefaults content under Root .

i found the .../Prefernces folder, which was created today, but its empty, i checked with sudo ls — ios newbie, Mar 15 '16 at 10:48
use [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:@"Hello" forKey:@"Test"]; then check plist file will be created. — Reshmi Majumder, Mar 15 '16 at 10:59

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 24 '18 at 12:37

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When using the Simulator, you can use this swift snippet to print the location :

dump(NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true)[0])

answered Apr 24 '18 at 12:37

Victor Bogdan

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 15 '16 at 08:51

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The physical path is rootOfApplication/Library/Preferences/com.yourcompany.appName.plist you can see there if you test it in simulator

and the workflow is

1.Connect Your device to Xcode

2.select Windows->Organiser

3.select you device

4.tap on your application

5.select applicationData tapping down list

6.tap down arrow and download that folder

7.open downloaded folder Library -> Preferences -> appbundlename.plist

answered Mar 15 '16 at 08:51

Kumar Utsav

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there is no com.yourcompany.anyMyApp.plist in rootOfApplication/Library/Preferences/ – ios newbie Mar 15 '16 at 09:03
the reverse DNS that you give in the beginning. I give for example com.kumar so forth, at the time of creating your app. – Kumar Utsav Mar 15 '16 at 09:04
in this dir only com.apple* and com.adobe* plists – ios newbie Mar 15 '16 at 09:09

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