A shortcut is provided in the left pane of the *Files* browser and in the **Places** menu in the top navigation bar to access the */live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/dotfiles* folder.
<p>The Dotfiles feature only links specific files, and not entire folders, from the Persistent Storage. Accordingly, empty folders are ignored, as shown in the above example.</p>
On Tails and Linux in general, the name of configuration files often starts with a dot and are sometimes called [[!wikipedia dotfiles]] for this reason.The Dotfiles feature of the Persistent Storage makes it easy to persist such "*dotfiles*", for example */home/amnesia/.gitconfig* or */home/amnesia/.bashrc*.
<p>The anonymity of Tor and Tails relies on making it harder to distinguish one Tails user from another. In some cases, changing the default settings can break your anonymity.</p>
