ApplicationData.LocalFolder | localFolder property

Gets the root folder in the local app data store.

Syntax

var localFolder = applicationData.localFolder;

Property value

Type: StorageFolder

The file system folder that contains the files.

Remarks

You can access files in the local app data store using the "ms-appdata:///local/" protocol. For example:

<img src="ms-appdata:///local/myFile.png" alt="" />

To access files in the app package, use Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation.

To request that Windows index your app data for search, create a folder named "Indexed" under this folder and store the files that you want indexed there. Windows indexes the file content and metadata (properties) in this "Indexed" folder and all its subfolders.

Examples

Use the file APIs, such as Windows.Storage.StorageFolder.CreateFileAsync | createFileAsync and Windows.Storage.FileIO.WriteTextAsync | writeTextAsync, to create and update a file in the local app data store. This example creates a file named dataFile.txt in the localFolder container and writes the current date and time to the file. The ReplaceExisting | replaceExisting value from the CreationCollisionOption enumeration indicates that the file should be replaced if it already exists.

Next, this example opens the dataFile.txt file created and reads the date from the file using Windows.Storage.FileIO.ReadTextAsync | readTextAsync.

var applicationData = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.current;
var localFolder = applicationData.localFolder;

// Write data to a file

function writeTimestamp() {
   localFolder.createFileAsync("dataFile.txt", Windows.Storage.CreationCollisionOption.replaceExisting)
      .then(function (sampleFile) {
         var formatter = new Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.DateTimeFormatter("longtime");
         var timestamp = formatter.format(new Date());

         return Windows.Storage.FileIO.writeTextAsync(sampleFile, timestamp);
      }).done(function () {      
      });
}

// Read data from a file

function readTimestamp() {
   localFolder.getFileAsync("dataFile.txt")
      .then(function (sampleFile) {
         return Windows.Storage.FileIO.readTextAsync(sampleFile);
      }).done(function (timestamp) {
         // Data is contained in timestamp
      }, function () {
         // Timestamp not found
      });
}

Requirements

See also

Tasks

Quickstart: Local application data (JavaScript)

Quickstart: Local application data (C#/VB/C++)

Concepts

Application data overview

Reference

ApplicationData

Build date: 2/25/2013