c# - SpecialFolder.Personal location

Question

I am saving a file to System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal in Xamarin. It appears to succeed, because I can immediately pull data from the file. However, I cannot browse and find this file on my phone. Where exactly is this exclusive Personal folder?

Answer 1

The System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal type maps to the path /data/data/[your.package.name]/files. This is a private directory to your application so you won't be able to see these files using a file browser unless it has root privileges.

You can inspect these files through adb through the following commands:

adb shell
run-as your.package.name
cd files