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=Internal=

* [[Helm#Subjects|Helm]]

=Overview=

Helm 3 changed the location of its local state (Helm 2 used ~/.helm). Helm stores configuration based on the XDG base directory specification, as such:
* cached files are stored in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/helm
* configuration is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/helm
* data is stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME/helm

The location of the configuration, cache and data home depend on the operating system:
{|
| '''Operating System''' ||'''Configuration Path'''||'''Cache Path'''||'''Data Path''' 
|-
| '''macOS''' || $HOME/Library/Preferences/helm || $HOME/Library/Caches/helm  || $HOME/Library/helm
|-
| '''Linux '''|| $HOME/.config/helm   ||$HOME/.cache/helm || $HOME/.local/share/helm 
|}