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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
I was wondering why it was in Roaming as opposed to, say, Local (where I looked first).
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...appdata-folder
Like many things in Windows, Roaming is also about corporate environments. That's a major source of revenue for MS, corporates pay annual support/license fees, which in part at least, subsidize things like the 13 years of free upgrades for XP that consumers enjoy(ed).
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Like I thought.
Basically, even though AppData really should just have, well, app data, MS set up a system to segregate data depending on whether it should be synced from computer to computer (for busines users who tend to use networked login domains). This save the trouble of syncing Local\ data which has no compelling need (like the cache) to save on network usage.
Important stuff goes into the Roaming folder, including al config-type data.
And since it is default, it happens even if you don't use a network domain.