I pulled out a file from the android sdcard using adb and it seems it goes to c:\documents and settings\userName
by default. I don't know how it got set to this folder since this is not where adb is installed, but probably has got something to do with the fact that both the workspace
and .android
folders are located here. How do I change this default location for pull command of adb?
The default directory for adb pull
or adb push
seems to be the current directory (aka .
).
If you issue a command such as the following, not specifying the target
directory
adb pull /boot.txt
the file (provided it exists) will be copied to the current directory.
Windows users:
Take notice of the following: If you are using Windows (Vista or newer), chances are that if the current directory requires elevated privileges to write on, Windows will silently replicate the directory structure of your current directory in a special folder called VirtualStore
and will copy your files in it.
The full path for VirtualStore
is: %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
, which most likely will translate into C:\Users\<account_name>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore
.
So, in the following scenario,
C:\> cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\MyCustomADBInstallLocation"
C:\Program Files (x86)\MyCustomADBInstallLocation> adb pull /boot.txt
your file boot.txt
will end up in this folder
C:\Users\<account_name>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\MyCustomADBInstallLocation\