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title: "Where are cookies actually stored on the hard disk?"  
description: "Where are cookies actually stored on the hard disk?"  
author: "Chris Anderson"  
published: 2011-09-17  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1270/where-are-cookies-actually-stored-on-the-hard-disk  
category: "javascript"  
tags: ["javascript"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Where are cookies actually stored on the hard disk?

This depends on the user's browser and OS.\
In the case of Netscape with Windows OS,all the cookies are stored in a single file called\
\
cookies.txt \
c:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\username\cookies.txt \

## Answers

### Answer by Chris Anderson

This depends on the user's browser and OS.\
In the case of Netscape with Windows OS,all the cookies are stored in a single file called\
\
cookies.txt \
c:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\username\cookies.txt \


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