Where Does Pulsar Store Settings and Packages?
Pulsar .pulsar folder in home with config, packages and snippets on every OS.
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Pulsar inherited Atom's layout with a .pulsar folder in your home directory holding config.cson, keymap, snippets, styles and community packages. Projects live wherever you cloned them.
Packages install into the folder, so a fresh machine refetches dozens on sync. Copy .pulsar to skip the reinstall parade mostly intact.
Where Pulsar stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\.pulsar
Holds config.cson, keymap.cson, snippets.cson and the packages tree. Same dot-folder layout on macOS and Linux at ~/.pulsar. Copy with Pulsar closed; binary packages may need rebuilding across architectures.
~/.pulsar
Same config and packages role as Windows. Community packages reinstall from the registry when versions mismatch.
~/.pulsar
Same tree as the other builds. Keep config.cson in dotfiles and let packages reinstall for the cleanest migrations.
Frequently asked questions
How do I back up Pulsar settings?
Copy the .pulsar folder with the editor closed. Config files restore cleanly; reinstall packages that fail to load.
Where are Pulsar packages?
In the packages subfolder of .pulsar above, one directory per community package plus bundled themes.
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