For each user of Visual Assist, and for each IDE, Visual Assist creates a set of private VA Snippets from defaults ones after initial installation of Visual Assist. A user's private VA Snippets may be restored if inadvertently lost.
By default, Visual Assist stores a copy of default VA Snippets in the following locations. Location varies by IDE and OS.
Visual Studio 2012 and newer
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<IDE version>\Extensions\<hashed name>\Autotext\Latest\
Visual Studio 2010
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions\Whole Tomato Software\Visual Assist X\Autotext\Latest\
or
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions\<hashed name>\Autotext\Latest\
Visual Studio 2010 using Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions\Whole Tomato Software\Visual Assist X\Autotext\Latest\
Visual Studio 2008 and below
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\VisualAssist\Autotext\Latest\
Visual Studio 2008 and below using Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\VisualAssist\Autotext\Latest\