Lumotia/docs/architecture-map/05-core-storage-hotkey-build/storage-file-paths.md

name, type, slice, last_verified

name	type	slice	last_verified
Storage file paths	architecture-map-page	05-core-storage-hotkey-build	2026/05/09

Storage file paths

Where you are: Architecture map → Core, Storage, Hotkey, Build → Storage file paths

Plain English summary. Thin re-export layer. magnotia-storage::file_storage proxies the magnotia-core::paths::AppPaths accessors so callers that already depend on magnotia-storage do not need to add an explicit magnotia-core import to reach the database path.

At a glance

• File: crates/storage/src/file_storage.rs (28 LOC).
• External deps: standard library only. Forwards into magnotia_core::paths.
• Public surface: app_data_dir, database_path, recordings_dir, crashes_dir, logs_dir. Re-exported from crates/storage/src/lib.rs:23.
• Consumers: slice 2 startup; the diagnostic-report bundler; the live-session recorder writing audio to recordings_dir.

What's in here

Every function is a one-liner forwarding into the core path API:

pub fn app_data_dir() -> PathBuf {
    magnotia_core::paths::app_paths().app_data_dir()
}
pub fn database_path() -> PathBuf {
    magnotia_core::paths::app_paths().database_path()
}
pub fn recordings_dir() -> PathBuf {
    magnotia_core::paths::app_paths().recordings_dir()
}
pub fn crashes_dir() -> PathBuf {
    magnotia_core::paths::app_paths().crashes_dir()
}
pub fn logs_dir() -> PathBuf {
    magnotia_core::paths::app_paths().logs_dir()
}

Notes per directory

• database_path — <app_data>/magnotia.db. Where magnotia_storage::init creates / opens the SQLite database. Absent on first run; created with create_if_missing(true).
• recordings_dir — <app_data>/recordings/. Audio captures live here. The transcription command (slice 2) writes WAV files; their relative path is stamped onto transcripts.audio_path.
• crashes_dir — <app_data>/crashes/. The Rust panic hook writes <unix-ts>-<short-id>.crash files here. Read by the diagnostic-report bundler in Settings → About.
• logs_dir — <app_data>/logs/. Rolling log file (magnotia.log, rotated magnotia.log.1, etc). The tracing-subscriber set up in slice 2 startup (src-tauri/src/lib.rs) writes here.

The model directories (models_dir, speech_model_dir, llm_models_dir) are not re-exported here. Callers reach them directly via magnotia_core::paths::AppPaths — those calls live in slices 3 (speech models) and 4 (LLM models).

Watch-outs

• No directory-creation side effects. These functions return paths only. Callers that need the directory to exist are responsible for std::fs::create_dir_all. The storage init function does this for the database parent (crates/storage/src/database.rs:10); other consumers should follow.
• Repeated calls re-resolve env vars. Each invocation rebuilds AppPaths from scratch. Cheap, but noisy. Slice 2 caches a OnceLock<AppPaths> for the app lifetime.

See also

• Core app paths — the underlying AppPaths type.
• Storage overview