quick silly Shared Objects question

[CDHBookingEdge]

I know that Shared Objects are sometimes called "flash cookies" and I'm not that familiar with them though LOL that might change and have to change by New Years or soon after.

But I was thinking this..how much are they cookies?
I mean let's say that I write a program that has as it's local data store a Shared Object or set of Shared Objects Then let's say that the user goes and chooses to "Delete Cookies". Are those shared objects then gone?

Sorry if that sounds like a silly question like I said I've only made an edge-wise investigation at the most of Shared Objects.

Thanks in advance,
Christopher

[dr_zeus]

In my experience, when a browser deletes cookies, it probably won't touch the shared objects. I'm guessing that will change in time, though.

[CyanBlue]

Yup... Flash saves Shared Object to this directory...

C:\Documents and Settings\[YourUserName]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\[RandomString]\domain.com\file.swf\data.sol

and you might wonder who would really dig that far and delete them everyday... So, saved data is safe until the actual data.sol file is deleted...
and as dr zeus said, you never know what will happen next year... ;)

[CDHBookingEdge]

Oops sorry for not responding. Thanks Cy for the reassurance.

[CyanBlue]

It's not a problem... ;)