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To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] SGG@lemmy.world 69 points 6 months ago

Don't forget that appdata nowadays has 3 sub folders, local, locallow, and roaming.

Also there's C:\programdata

Also some programs just store it in the user folder, the documents folder, or games/ my games folder if they are a game.

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

What the fuck is local low? I don't understand. Local is Billy G's jizz... I get that... And Roaming is for poor plebs. But why LocalLow? Is it like cache? But I have seens games saving their save files there. I don't understand

[-] Laser@feddit.de 15 points 6 months ago

The folders actually do make sense.

Roaming: this data can be moved between machines in a domain if you have a roaming profile. E.g. go to another workstation and your browser configuration is the same? Means it's in Roaming.

Local: this data will not be synchronized between machines when you roam. This could be your browser's cache.

LocalLow: like local, but for applications that are "low integrity", like Internet Explorer. These folders have special properties. https://helgeklein.com/blog/internet-explorer-in-protected-mode-how-the-low-integrity-environment-gets-created/

[-] Lath@kbin.earth 12 points 6 months ago

Local is for regular apps, LocalLow is for depressed apps and Roaming is for high apps looking for munchies.

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

This is by far the best explanation

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

This is probably what MS thought when naming them... seriously, only Local makes some sense.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You can rename them in the environment variables UI. Has anyone tried this, any software who has the path hardcoded?

Btw, here's the paths.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Has anyone tried this, any software who has the path hardcoded?

I know for certain that some Adobe products did have these paths hardocded (past tense, haven't tried this now), because I moved my home/user directory on D:, yet they persisted to save the settings in C:\Users.

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