Location of the mongodb database on mac

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I am kind of new to mac as well as mongodb   I have a weird doubt  accessing the database created using mongodb on mac   I know  in windows there is a folder called c  data db  where my database files are stored   How and where in mac  the database is stored   I remember doing something like   sudo mkdir -p  data db sudo chown  id -u   data db   to create such a folder on mac  but I didn t find any database file in this folder  though i created a database   Where are the database files saved on mac   Any help would be really appreciated

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If mongodb is installed via Homebrew the default location is:

/usr/local/var/mongodb

See the answer from @simonbogarde for the location of other interesting files that are different when using Homebrew.

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I have just installed mongodb 3 4 with homebrew  brew install mongodb   It looks for  data db by default    https   docs mongodb com manual tutorial install-mongodb-on-os-x

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Env  macOS Mojave 10 14 4  Install  homebrew   Location  usr local Cellar mongodb 4 0 3 1  Note  If update version by brew upgrade mongo the folder 4 0 4 1 will be removed and replace with the new version folder

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The default data directory for MongoDB is  data db   This can be overridden by a dbpath option specified on the command line or in a configuration file   If you install MongoDB via a package manager such as Homebrew or MacPorts these installs typically create a default data directory other than  data db and set the dbpath in a configuration file   If a dbpath was provided to mongod on startup you can check the value in the mongo shell   db serverCmdLineOpts     You would see a value like    parsed           dbpath      usr local data

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Thanks  Mark  I keep forgetting this again and again  After installing MongoDB with Homebrew    The databases are stored in the  usr local var mongodb  directory The mongod conf file is here   usr local etc mongod conf The mongo logs can be found at  usr local var log mongodb  The mongo binaries are here   usr local Cellar mongodb  version  bin

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I had the same problem  with version 3 4 2  to run it  if you installed it with homebrew  run the process like this     mongod --dbpath  usr local var mongodb

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