User AppData Files

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NTPrank001

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Good day everyone can someone knows where part of user appdata located the data or setting of a program or software?

For example in Android phone not the OBB the data of your apps or game
 
There isn't a single answer. Apps can write data under Local, LocalLow or Roaming folders (or any combination of them).
UWP apps have a more specific layout, due to the way UWP is provisioned.

Active Directory introduced roaming profiles, where a domain user could sit down on any system and some user profile settings would be locally transferred. Roaming data is synced to the AD servers, and usually there's a limit on space. Therefore it's mostly high-level app settings.

Local data isn't synced by Active Directory. Data content is usually stored here. The majority of personal users don't use AD, but developers will follow this convention. LocalLow is a low-security model version of Local.

If you have a browser like Firefox, Mozilla folders will exist across Local, LocalLow and Roaming. And other app settings can live in the Registry, under HKLM or HKCU paths.

What you need to do is web search your app, since someone's already figured out where that setting lives.
 
garlin said:
There isn't a single answer. Apps can write data under Local, LocalLow or Roaming folders (or any combination of them).
UWP apps have a more specific layout, due to the way UWP is provisioned.

Active Directory introduced roaming profiles, where a domain user could sit down on any system and some user profile settings would be locally transferred. Roaming data is synced to the AD servers, and usually there's a limit on space. Therefore it's mostly high-level app settings.

Local data isn't synced by Active Directory. Data content is usually stored here. The majority of personal users don't use AD, but developers will follow this convention. LocalLow is a low-security model version of Local.

If you have a browser like Firefox, Mozilla folders will exist across Local, LocalLow and Roaming. And other app settings can live in the Registry, under HKLM or HKCU paths.

What you need to do is web search your app, since someone's already figured out where that setting lives.
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Is there a way to copy the whole appdata folder to other location without losing any single files?
 
AppData files (other than random file permissions) are normal files that can be copied. The problem is they don't exist by themselves.
There can be app-specific reg keys tied to them, so copying/moving them around doesn't mean your app will recognize them.

For some games, that means you can't transfer your progress to another PC. You're stuck upgrading an existing system.
 
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