Where your data lives

Everything ObjectExplorer keeps for itself is in one folder, on every platform and in every mode — the desktop app, npx, the browser front door:

~/.objectexplorer

On Windows that is C:\Users\<you>\.objectexplorer.

Nothing is ever written into the folders or buckets you browse.

	What it holds
meta.db	what the app remembers about what you have looked at: the roots you added, the object tree, size history, column statistics, notebooks, read counts
log.db	the Cloud Logging tail, so it survives a restart
connections.json	credentials you typed into a dialog rather than into your own CLI
app.log	what the app did, in order — the first thing to read when something is wrong
.app/	the versions of the product the app has downloaded for itself
provider folders	the cached copies of objects you opened, per provider

meta.db

The object tree is stored as ids and names, never as paths, which is why renaming a folder carries its whole history with it — every size snapshot and column measurement stays attached to the thing you have been watching.

There is no migration path between schema versions: when the shape changes, the database is deleted and built again from what your providers say. The one thing that cannot be observed a second time is the list of roots you added, so a schema change asks you to add them again.

Deleting it

Removing ~/.objectexplorer resets the app to a fresh install. Nothing in your storage is touched.

Next: updating.