Where Does Scoop Install Apps?
Scoop apps, shims, cache and config folders inside the user profile on Windows.
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Scoop installs per user with no admin rights, so its entire world sits in a scoop folder in your profile. Apps, shims, buckets and persist data each get a subfolder.
The persist folder is the clever part. App data that would normally scatter stays there across updates, which makes the whole tree portable.
Where Scoop stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\scoop\apps
One subfolder per app with versioned installs inside. Buckets, shims, cache and persist sit alongside. No admin rights needed to browse.
Frequently asked questions
How do I back up a Scoop setup?
Everything lives under ~/scoop: apps hold installed versions, shims hold PATH entries, cache holds downloads, persist holds data that survives updates. Copy the whole folder for a rough migration.
How do I free Scoop disk space?
Run scoop cleanup to drop old versions. Scoop keeps previous versions per app, so this reclaims real space after updates.
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