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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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AppData/Roaming. Moving. Error. "More than 256 characters long" filenames

What am I trying to do? I am changing 'Location' of the AppData/Roaming folder to another partition of the same disk, as shown on the screenshot below. The screenshot shows in blue background the destination address for the destination folder. The…
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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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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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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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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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Were changes to the attributes of the AppData folder made in Windows 10 to hide it from Windows Explorer - even when hidden files/folders are enabled?

If choosing to show hidden files/folders from within the Folder Options of Windows Explorer in Windows 10, I've noticed that the "AppData" folder within "C:\Users\Username" isn't displayed as it was in Windows 7 - it's possible to manually add…
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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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Windows 10 is it safe to remove AppData content from my user

I have Microsoft Windows 10 installed in 1st partition of size 100gb, from couple of months I have been running into low disks pace and for same reasons not my windows getting latest updates nor able to sync my cloud drives. I hardly have 1 or half…
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Windows wrongly shows my AppData\Local folder to be 500GB more

I plan to move my AppData folder to D: drive because I have more space following this: Can I move my AppData folder in Windows 10?. However when I try to copy the folder over before doing anything, Windows somehow shows this folder to be 558GB when…
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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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