File.applicationStorageDirectory problem

Hello dear adobe air community!
I'm new to air mobile development and i'm currently facing a weird problem with File API and its applicationStorageDirectory property.
Please correct me if i'm wrong but it seems that every files stored in applicationStorageDirectory are not deleted during application update, true?
In m'y case, I'm using applicationStorageDirectory to store application database with some user settings. Obviously, these settings should be kept during application update process. Unfortunately, they are removed each time I'm updating the application...
Any ideas? Can this behaviour should result for a bad configuration of my air descriptor file?
Thanks in advance for your help...

Thank you Chris for your quick answer.
My database file is copied when the application starts up.
A check is performed before copying the database file.
However, after application update, the database seems to be removed and recreated...
The following code performs the database initialization:
* Init the database with a default database file.
* @param dbFilePathSource
* @param dbFilePathTarget
public static function initDatabase(dbFilePathSource:String, dbFilePathTarget:String):void {
trace("IN initDatabase.");
// DB files lookup
var embeddedSessionDB:File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath(dbFilePathSource);
var writeSessionDB:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath(dbFilePathTarget);
// If a writable DB doesn't exist, then we copy it into the app folder so it's writable
if (!writeSessionDB.exists) {
trace("DB file does not exist at path [" + dbFilePathTarget + "]. DB file file be created from reference file stored at path [" + dbFilePathSource + "].");
embeddedSessionDB.copyTo(writeSessionDB);
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