Character Data Files

Contains information about files that are specific to each character.

Data files are xxx.dat files generally located in the XIV client folder and sub folders at <..>\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\.

Character Creator Presets

The FFXIV Character Creator saves presets, when saving a character appearance at the end of character creation, in a file called FFXIV_CHARA_XX.dat where XX is the preset slot number from 01 to 40.

Character Data Folder

All data related to characters that have been used on the current machine is saved in a folder called FFXIV_CHRxxxx where xxxx is a unique ID for the character.

This folder contains *.dat files for character settings, hotbars and UI configuration, macros and so on, as well as a log folder containing the chat logs.