Where are Blueprints stored on MacOS? (+ Blueprint docs are a little slim)

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Where do Blueprints get stored on MacOS?

When you create a Blueprint, the process just completes and there’s no info or docs about where it is.

This answer suggests it’s in ~/Library/Application Support/Local by Flywheel/blueprints, but both my user ~/Library and root /Library do not contain a Local by Flywheel directory, neither directly in it or nested within Application Support/

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General issues with Blueprint documentation

To further on that, I think the Blueprint docs need to be written/extended a lot:

• Windows users also don’t know where Blueprints get stored, and seem to encounter errors

• The fact that you need to right click on a site to create a Blueprint is pretty tucked away, and difficult to find (versus previous versions of Local, where it was apparent)

• I had to switch my MySQL version around just to get Blueprints to work, as described in this ticket from a few years ago

• It seems other users have issues where Blueprints error out on import, so I’m wondering if this is a low prio (there isn’t even a tag for Blueprints in this support forum) or under-tested feature?

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• MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
• LocalWP 5.9.2
• Apache
• PHP 7.3.5
• MySQL 5.7.28 (other versions wouldn’t work with Blueprints, the option in the flyout menu was just greyed out)

[orvn]

Turns out the directory name changed to just Local, I feel a little silly running sudo find ~/ -type d -name "blueprints", but it found the path:

~/Library/Application Support/Local/blueprints