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0 pointshobs1y ago0 comments

:) and local state, configuration, and anything an app needs when you do stuff. It's really the local user state in most cases, very important to back up!

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wink1y ago

On my Win10 desktop it got to 30GB though and the stuff worth backup is actually about 1GB of it.

Let's just call it what it is: a complete mess. Some apps install their binaries in there, some just config files, some all your data.

If there are guidelines (and they are not conflicting) about 1/3 of apps are ignoring them.

Also good luck trying to back it up with robocopy or anything, maybe windows' own backup tool can read it while running on that account, I usually get errors, which I think are mostly fine to ignore.

hobsOP1y ago

There's no good guideline - if you want a local cache that transports across user migration, that's the show. Windows doesn't really have a "separate your local disk cache from your backups" method, but you can certainly do the Cleanup Task to remove some things that buy into that modal that's 25 years old :)

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