# Where are artifacts stored locally?

**URL:** <https://community.wandb.ai/t/where-are-artifacts-stored-locally/1733>\
**Category:** W&B Help\
**Created:** [January 8, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/where-are-artifacts-stored-locally/1733 "2022-01-08T20:46:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![taochen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@taochen](https://community.wandb.ai/u/taochen)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/where-are-artifacts-stored-locally/1733/1 "2022-01-08T20:46:19Z")

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Hi,

As the title says, where are the artifacts stored locally when I save an artifact? How can I change its default location? It seems that changing `WANDB_DIR` does not change where artifacts are stored. On the other hand, I found many folders in `.../wandb/artifacts/obj/md5`, what are these folders? Can I change its default saving location? Thanks

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**Author:** ![armanharutyunyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@armanharutyunyan](https://community.wandb.ai/u/armanharutyunyan)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/where-are-artifacts-stored-locally/1733/2 "2022-01-11T12:06:51Z")

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Hey Tao, checking on that for you.

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**Author:** ![armanharutyunyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@armanharutyunyan](https://community.wandb.ai/u/armanharutyunyan)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/where-are-artifacts-stored-locally/1733/3 "2022-01-21T14:11:22Z")

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Hey Tao, apologies about the delay on this one. The artifacts you create during a run will be placed in the run directory where the run information is logged (and as such the artifacts logged to a run will be placed in a nested directory starting with the WANDB\_DIR).  
When you are downloading an artifact you can pass the directory to save to in that case: [https://docs.wandb.ai/ref/python/artifact#download](https://docs.wandb.ai/ref/python/artifact#download)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/366b649231631dbab896843020da0056074ac79d.png) [@system](https://community.wandb.ai/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/where-are-artifacts-stored-locally/1733/4 "2022-03-22T14:11:22Z")

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