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.
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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/...
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WindowsSearch not working
I decided to move AppData to D: and crated junction. I am not sure if it occurred because of this or because of Windows update shortly after, but ever since I am not able search for anything. I cannot ...
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Moving Roaming folder
My C: is always full and the main reason is because of the Roaming folder, I see people on the Internet move it to another drive to save space. Is it really safe to do this? How to move it, I always ...
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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 ...
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Why does a software which should be installed in AppData keep getting installed in program files(x86), is there a Windows configuration, to do so?
There is a custom built Excel plugin which is getting installed inside C:\Users\username\AppData\Local folder. That is the correct spot.
But for some users it getting installed inside Program Files(...
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Windows 10 update erased %AppData%\Notepad++\backup; is there a way to restore unsaved files?
Today's update of Windows 10 erased Notepad++ [v7.9.1] folder %AppData%\Notepad++\backup and am aware that backup files can be a solution, but is there any way to get my unsaved tabs back?
I've read ...
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Folder has gone missing from AppData, why?
I have an old SSD with a Windows 8.1 installation on it. I am trying to track down a cryptocoin wallet that I had been using back in 2014 and is typically stored in AppData\Roaming. The thing is, the ...
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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% ...
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Java (jre) doesn't work anymore, even eclipse won't startup
I have tried to change my java version.I wanted version 14.0.1. There is a version 1.8.0.145, it's still there in a dir in program files.
But now, when type java -version in cmd, it's looking for '...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Why do some Windows programs store user data directly in the User folder as opposed to AppData?
This is pretty infuriating to me. There isn't a consistency as to where things are stored. Isn't all that stuff (like .conda and .cache and .viminfo) supposed to be in AppData\Roaming? Almost nothing ...
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Secedit.exe stops working after denying execution permission to AppData directory
I'm using the following command to deny execution permission to the AppData directory:
icacls $env:userprofile\AppData /deny "*S-1-1-0:(OI)(CI)(X)"
The problem is, that after doing this, I'...
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Is it possible to FIX the %AppData%/Roaming after moving it to different location
I moved %AppData%\Roaming\ to a different drive and realized afterward that Windows somehow lost access to %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\ (couldn't read and write), so I lost startup items and many ...
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