Where does Eclipse hide the keystore?

android publishing keystore
Aurora picture Aurora · Aug 28, 2010 · Viewed 26.8k times · Source

I'm surprisingly frustrated by this, and I suspect the answer is simple.

I have compiled and signed my android app using the Export Wizard, as described here in the section 'Compile and sign with Eclipse ADT'.

I would like to backup the keystore and have it handy for future app updates, but I can't figure out for the life of me where the keystore is saved. I of course can use Eclipse to go through the process, but if something happens to my computer I'll be pretty screwed.

Does anyone know where it is stored?

Answer

Giulio Prisco picture Giulio Prisco · Jun 14, 2011

I just spent a lot of time on this very annoying problem. On Windows, if you do not specify a full path when you create the keystore, Eclipse will hide it in its own directory. So in my case it was C:\eclipse\mykeystore

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