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r/ClaudeAI by Gentleigh21 New

Where are conversation transcripts stored on Windows? (Claude Desktop)

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(Yes, Claude helped me write this) I've discovered that Claude Desktop appears to automatically save full conversation transcripts before compressing long conversations. From inside Claude's environment, these files are visible at /mnt/transcripts/ with filenames like 2026-01-06-01-11-35-opus-jan4-token-limits-mcp-guide.txt. Claude can read these files and reference them after compression happens. There's even a journal.txt that indexes them with timestamps and descriptions. But I can't find where these files actually live on my Windows computer. I've searched my entire C: drive for the filenames with no results. I've also checked C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Claude\ where other Claude data lives (like the DIPS database files) but no transcripts folder there either. Has anyone found where Claude Desktop stores these transcript files on Windows? Would love to be able to back them up manually. Using Claude Desktop on Windows 11.

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