General information

Where is my data located?

All data pertaining to AnythingLLM Desktop will be in the following locations. Please replace <usr> with your device username.

On Mac: /Users/<usr>/Library/Application Support/anythingllm-desktop/storage

On Linux: /Users/<usr>/.config/anythingllm-desktop/storage/

On Windows: C:\User\<usr>\AppData\Roaming\anythingllm-desktop\storage

What is each folder?

• lancedb: This it where your local vector database and its tables are stored.
• documents: This is the parsed document content of any uploaded files.
• vector-cache: This folder is the cached and embedded representation of a previous uploaded and embedded file. Its filename is hashed.
• models: Any locally stored LLMs or Embedder models used by the system are stored here. Typically are GGUF files.
• anythingllm.db: This is the AnythingLLM SQLite database.