Data storage location#

Locating the files#

Since v1.16.0, Mockoon is storing each mock API's data in a separate file.

You can locate the folder in which the API data are stored by right-clicking on each environment and selecting "Show data file in explorer/finder":

Moving the files#

You can move the data files to another folder by right-clicking on an environment and selecting "Move data file to folder":

Enabling data file watching#

Mockoon can monitor data files' external changes and automatically reload the interface with the new information. This is particularly useful when you are editing the data files with an external editor or pulling changes from a git repository. You can activate this option in the settings:

Old system (pre v1.16.0)#

Before version 1.16.0, all of your environments were stored in the same environments.json file in the application data folder. The file was located in your operating system's user folder:

• Windows: c:/Users/xxx/AppData/Roaming/mockoon/storage
• Linux: ~/.config/mockoon/storage
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/mockoon/storage

When updating to version 1.16.0, Mockoon automatically migrated the old environments.json file (see below) and split it into as many files as you had environments. These files were created in the same storage folder with incremental names: environment-0.json, environment-1.json, etc.