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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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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 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/

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    This is by far the best explanation

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 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.