• IsoSpandy@lemm.ee
    81·
    8 months ago

    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

    • Laser@feddit.de
      15·
      8 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/

    • Lath@kbin.earth
      12·
      8 months ago

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

      • 0x4E4FOPEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

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

      • 0x4E4FOPEnglish
        2·
        8 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.