PromptDustCaches
Perplexity Desktop
The Perplexity desktop app caches conversation and search history in local application storage.
Exposure
- Stores found
- 1
- Holds
- API keys · personal data · source code
- Confidence
- likely
Where it writes
1 store in the current signature database. Paths shown for a typical macOS install.
files may hold API keys · personal data · source code
- macOS
~/Library/Application Support/Perplexitydir - Windows
~/AppData/Roaming/Perplexitydir
The Perplexity desktop app caches conversation and search history in local application storage.
- Sign out to clear locally cached conversations.
What to do about it
PromptDust flags these stores and leaves them in place; cleanup is your call. If a store holds a live secret, rotate the secret first, since deleting the file won’t un-leak a key that already sat in plain text.
For ongoing work, keep sensitive material out of sessions where you can, and prune old transcripts and caches now and then.
This describes where Perplexity Desktop stores data. Metadata only, never your content. Confidence: likely. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
See if this one’s on your machine.
One pass finds every store, for this tool and the other 51.