- How to Delete Flash Cookies ... or How to find the Local Storage

Flash cookies are little pieces of information that Flash applications can store on a user´s hard drive. They are not part of the browser´s temporary internet files and so they won´t be deleted when you delete all you internet settings.

If you google for "delete flash cookies" most of the answers you will boil down to

• go to Adobe site
• find the manager program
• delete the cookies

Some people simply feel awkward about that ... seemingly having no control about these cookies.

Actually, the problem isn´t that big. You can actually find the cookies on your hard-drive. You could e.g. try to do a file search for *.sol-files. In Windows systems they are located in your user´s "AppData" directory. There is a little trick, though. You won´t find the cookies in the Adobe folder as one would expect. Instead, look for a Macromedia folder. Wikipedia has good article about how to find the sol-files, so I am not going to repeat the info given there.

One small advice for Windows users: You may have to enable "Show Hidden Files and Folders" (XP) / (Windows7).

With this knowledge, you can easily create a small script that you can put on your desktop to delete all flash cookies whenever you want.