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| 07 Aug 2011 | #1 |
| | New AppData folder? Hello, I am new to the forum. Just found out something which I cannot understand.. I installed Windows 7 a while ago, and everything has been going smoothly. But now I noticed a new AppData folder in my user folder(on desktop). This folder is normally found inside C drive - user. This seems to be an exact copy of THAT orifinal folder. When this problem occured, start up was a little slow. There was one more newly created folder names 'searches', which was empty. I just deleted it. What should I do with the AppData folder? By the way I am running Windows 7 SP1. Thanks for all your help. |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #2 |
| | The usual location for the appData folder is C:\Users\(username)\AppData If you create a random file (for ex. a new text document) in the AppData folder that you want to delete, does that file also appear in the C:\Users\(username)\AppData folder? |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #3 |
| | Yes, it does. |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #4 |
| | If you have no computer problems, i'd just leave it alone and hide the folders. Hidden Files and Folders - Show or Hide Your AppDATA folder usually contains Windows Live Essentials data, and stuff like that. No need to worry. Best Regards, FredeGail |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #5 |
| | Just a silly question. Are you sure that the thing on your desktop is not a shortcut? |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #6 |
| | Good Question 
Quote: Originally Posted by ZyanWu  Just a silly question. Are you sure that the thing on your desktop is not a shortcut? |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #7 |
| | No, it is not a shortcut. Size is 280MB. Inside there are the three folders - Local,LocalLow and Roaming. I can hide it but why was it created? Again, when the problem first occurred, startup was somewhat slow. Not anymore, though. |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #8 |
| | Yeah, it's a directory symbolic link. You can safely remove it. If you want to recreate it open a command prompt and use mklink: Code: Creates a symbolic link.
MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target
/D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file
symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J Creates a Directory Junction.
Link specifies the new symbolic link name.
Target specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link
refers to. |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #9 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by ZyanWu Yeah, it's a directory symbolic link. You can safely remove it. If you want to recreate it open a command prompt and use mklink: Code: Creates a symbolic link.
MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target
/D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file
symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J Creates a Directory Junction.
Link specifies the new symbolic link name.
Target specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link
refers to. |
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| 07 Aug 2011 | #10 |
| | The AppData folder on your Desktop is a directory symbolic link. You can remove it if it bothers you. If, in the near future, you want to re-create it or create another link to a specific folder you can use mklink. |
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