Where is the windows terminal settings location?

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1mike12 picture 1mike12 · Jul 26, 2020 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I edited the settings file and there must have been a typo and now the app crashes on startup.

Online the documentation says the settings lives in $env:LocalAppData\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json

I can't figure out what that path means since it doesn't exist on the computer.

Answer

1mike12 picture 1mike12 · Jul 26, 2020

I re-installed the app to fix the problem then made sure to see what the actual path is.

It's located in : C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState

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