Usage Files and Locations

Files & locations

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Aurelia stores its data under the user config directory (override it with AURELIA_CONFIG_DIR):

• Linux: ~/.config/Aurelia
• Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.config\Aurelia

Path	Contents
session.json	Persisted login session (refresh token). Encrypted with a key held in the OS keyring when one is available, otherwise plaintext with owner-only permissions. See Session storage.
images/	Cached cover/header artwork (<APP_ID>_library.jpg).
info_cache/	Cached info metadata (<APP_ID>.<LANGUAGE>.<COUNTRY>.json), TTL via AURELIA_INFO_CACHE_TTL (default 6h).
tag_names.<LANGUAGE>.json	Cached store tag names for a language, used to label info tags.
logs/	Per-launch event logs.

The OS keyring entry is stored under service aurelia, account session-key. Deleting it makes an encrypted session.json unreadable. Run aurelia login again to create a new one.

Game installs live in your Steam libraries (steamapps/common/...), which Aurelia discovers automatically across all connected drives.

The Windows Steam runtime keeps every repair backup of its master prefix as a timestamped .bak-<unix-time> sibling. Nothing deletes them except steam-runtime uninstall.