# Where your data lives

Your projects, chats, and memory live in a folder on your own machine — not on a server. Here's exactly where that is on each OS, what stays local versus what touches the cloud, and how to export, reveal, or clear it.

## The data folder

Everything Foxora keeps about your work lives in a single home folder on your device:

- macOS & Linux — ~/.foxora
- Windows — %USERPROFILE%\.foxora

That folder holds your sessions and chat history, your memory den, and local settings — the durable record of how you work with Foxora.

## Local versus cloud

Foxora is local-first by design. Your data stays on your machine; the cloud is used only to run the model and route requests:

- Stays local — your files, sessions, chat history, and the memory den. These never leave your device unless you choose to share them.
- Goes to the cloud — the prompt and context an agent needs for a single turn travel to the model gateway to generate a response, then the result comes back to you.

> Memory is local, tooWhat an agent remembers about you lives in your local den, not on a server. The controls for what’s remembered and what to forget are in memory privacy.

## Revealing the folder

To inspect the folder yourself, open Settings (⌘, / Ctrl+,) → Advanced and use Reveal data folder. It opens ~/.foxora in your file manager so you can see exactly what’s stored.

## Exporting and clearing

- 01Export your dataFrom Settings → Data, Export bundles your local data so you can back it up or move it to another machine. Because it already lives in ~/.foxora, there’s nothing to download from a server — it’s all on your disk.Export dataSettings → Data → Export.
- 02Clear your dataClear wipes the local store — sessions, history, and memory. This is a local action: it doesn’t touch your account, billing, or anything on the server. A separate Reset in Settings → Advanced returns local preferences (theme, onboarding state) to defaults.Clear dataSettings → Data → Clear (and Advanced → Reset for preferences).

> Clearing is permanentClearing your data can’t be undone. If there’s anything you want to keep, Export first, then clear.