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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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

    This is by far the best explanation

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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.