Program files require admin
Appdata doesn’t
Documents doesn’t either but in theory it’s for files you want the user to edit or backup
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Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is there an easy to find style guide of how Windows would like you to use these things, cause I never found one.
Appdata, my documents, program files… Everyone seems to be all over the place
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I believe the intent is to use appdata for user-specific configs and programdata for system-wide configs.
dan@upvote.au 1 week ago
A lot of apps mess up local vs roaming AppData too. Roaming is for things that would make sense in a roaming profile (ie to sync to other systems) whereas local is for things that should only exist on this system (caches, machine-specific configs, etc)