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I've been playing a flash game where you upgrade your character throughout the game, but now I'd like to start over from the beginning and upgrade everything again. I've tried going to where all my sol files are located deep in the Flash Player appdata, but I have no way of locating the specific game.

I also tried going to Macromedia's support page, but the problem is it only lets me delete flash cookies from an entire site as far as I can tell, which I don't want because I have saved data from other games on the same site which I want to keep.

I just want to remove the data from this one game. Is there any way to go about locating the right file to delete?

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Locally shared objects (LSOs) or "Flash cookies" are how Flash stores information on your computer between sessions; this includes Flash game save files.

From ActionScript 3.0 Developer’s Guide / Files and data / Storing local data / Shared objects:

When... a shared object [is created], Flash Player creates a new directory for the application and domain inside its sandbox. It also creates a *.sol file that stores the SharedObject data. The default location of this file is a subdirectory of the user’s home directory. The following table shows the default locations of this directory:

  • Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
  • Windows Vista/Windows 7: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
  • Macintosh OS X: /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/web_domain/path_to_application/application_name/object_name.sol
  • Linux/Unix: /home/username/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/web_domain/path_to_application/application_name/object_name.sol

Below the #SharedObjects directory is a randomly-named directory. Below that is a directory that matches the hostname, then the path to the application, and finally the *.sol file.

In Windows, you can take advantage of Windows environment path variables for an easy-to-copy link for everything but the random bit: %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\

For most gaming websites, the cookies will be in a subfolder specific to the game within the url folder. In the case of the question, the save would be in: www.wixgames.co.uk\swf\rocketbootsinc.swf\

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