Where are the smart contract accounts stored in geth?

Question

I have a single geth node running a private blockchain with a network ID N and data directory data/. I had deployed a smart contract ContractName on the same and things were working fine. I wanted to start fresh once again, so I deleted the directory data/geth/ entirely and ran geth init and started my node with the same network ID N. However, when I enter truffle console and run ContractName.address, I am still returned an address. The block data has been reset and the new block number is 0. How is this happening?

Answer 1

Keystore folder of the data directory stores information for the accounts. Delete following folders to remove the accounts information.

Mac:~/Library/Ethereum
Linux: ~/.ethereum
Windows: %APPDATA%\Ethereum

Answer 2

I found out the reason in the end. Turns out truffle console uses its own build files for contract addresses. So I had my previous compiled and deployed JSON files in the truffle build directory. Removing that directory showed my ContractName is not defined as expected.