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Questions tagged [appdata]

Use this tag when the topic is about the Windows %APPDATA% section of a user's directory. This can include information about how to find where specific programs store your individual settings.

Use this tag when the topic is about the Windows %APPDATA% section of a user's directory. This can include information about how to find where specific programs store your individual settings.

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Appdata/Local/Packages- safe to remove?

Trying to make sapce on my C drive. I see that my Appdata/Local/Packages folder is almost 20GB! Is it safe to delete this? If not, can it be 'pruned' without affecting installed applications?
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Where does Anki store media?

Where does Anki store media such as pictures, sound recordings, etc? I have tried to export the deck, but it doesn't show the location:
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How to generically refer to the AppData folder on the Windows command line?

The original User's Profile directory lives in a directory like C:\Users\username\AppData. How can I refer to the current user's profile directory when using the Windows command line? By searching I found out about %UserProfile% that perhaps refer…
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What are "temp" folders used for in Windows 10?

I wanted to do disk cleanup myself and found a large folder in %localappdata% called Temp. I wondered if deleting the contents of it won't harm my computer. All I know about "temp" folders is that there are more of them. Is it safe to delete a…
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User authorities for different windows 7 users

I believe I have got into some authority problem - but I am stuck. My guess is that the problem ocured due to lack of disk space, which is fine by now. This is what I deal with: One of the admin users on my laptop is unable to run common programs,…
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Can programs installed on other hard drives be retrieved with new boot drive?

I am replacing my windows 10 SSD C:\, and since I only have one M.2 slot I have to reinstall Windows on the new one. However, I barely put anything on this drive; I installed every program to my HDD D:\ that allowed me to do so. However, I suspect…
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Why does my old Firefox backup contain several screenshots of a fraction of my screen?

To start, a few innocent examples: As you can see, they seem to all capture the same "slice" of my screen. They are all in .png format and occupy the /AppData/Local/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/[my Firefox profile name].default/thumbnails folder.…
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I moved the AppData folder, now the start menu and notifications menu isn't working. I have no idea why

I moved my AppData folder to my second drive to save space, and the system icons on my taskbar, including the system menu and networking menu, won't work anymore. I can't right click on applications on the taskbar either. I have a tiny SSD…
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What is the WebCache folder in AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/ Windows 10

I downloaded "WinDirStat" in order to clean up some space on my Windows 10 PC. This program orders directories in a tree view based on size. Immediately I saw my user folder was using almost 30GB. Digging into the following path…
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Moving AppData to another drive

all I am trying to move AppData\Local, AppData\Roaming, and AppData\LocalLow to my D: drive. I know this is ill-advised by Microsoft, but if developers would be inclined to NOT store all there data in these directories I'd be fine. Any-how, I have…
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Run dialog doesn't open the folder inside subfolder of parent directory

I like working with the keyboard a lot, so I use the run dialog often. When I try to open a subfolder from the parent directory (from run dialog) I am able to open it. For example, if I type "appdata" and hit Enter, AppData folder opens up. But if I…
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How to import a Chrome extension's files from 6 years ago (I have the session data!)

In 2016, I would backup all my Chrome extension's current session data (the directory looks like this). I copy-pasted these files for few computer transfers and it worked every time - it got my extensions up and running fine. It meant I could…
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Windows 10 -System has blocked Quicken from accessing the following file/folder: c:\users\Admin\AppData\roaming\Intuit so Quicken won't start up

Not sure why this is happening. Spent hours on the phone with Quicken, with no resolution. Two unexplained issues about this error. That folder - AppData\Roaming\Intuit doesn't exist and Quicken doesn't create that folder anymore. Their…
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Problems with %AppData% folder

I have two drives in my computer, one SSD and one HDD, but the SSD was getting full so I moved %AppData% to the HDD to save space, using a symlink to link them, and navigating to %AppData% successfully redirects me. The problems I now have are: All…
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Moving and merging AppData folders

About six years ago, I moved my AppData folder off my boot drive (an SSD) to an HDD. I've just started looking at my system, and I seem to have done something quite wrong. My AppData folder has been moved to F:\AppData\Roaming (which is apparently…
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