Windows 8 Program Data Files

In your explorer options do you have hidden files made visible?

AppData is a subdir of the c:\Users\ directory. It does not always appear under your live session "My Documents area like it used to, so you have to navigate to it directly.

"fake out" is an ambiguous inane term. But whatever, dude.

Den tirsdag den 9. februar 2016 kl. 16.53.13 UTC+1 skrev rickman:

the usual trick is to do a save-as and figure out the path from the file dialog

-Lasse

In Win7 it's (default) in

C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Application_name

(replace User_name and Application_name with appropriate strings, obviously).

Windows may try to hide the folder from you if you haven't turned off that part of the stupidity.

--sp

I've never seen that work and it doesn't work here.

I have show hidden files selected so I can see the AppData folder.

That did it! Thanks.

This should not be a hidden directory. These are files that need to be backed up! I have no idea what Microsoft is thinking about when they do stuff like this.

Try to do that in Win8 or Win10 and you should get a permissions error warning that you need admin rights to do that.

It should allow you to find it on the disk though. Save file as "some_really_weird_name" then use search for files to locate it.

Or simply search for a filename you know already exists.

If all else fails then from a DOS prompt use

attrib *.* to locate files hidden in a directory

or

dir some_really_weird_name /s/p

to find wherever the system has hidden it for you.

Oh, that should be obvious by now: They are thinking about how to extract the greatest possible amount of money from as many clients as possible.

Jeroen Belleman

One thing yoo can do to avoid this nonsense is to install the main program in some other place, like your username folder. Then the program and data can stay together. And be backed up together.

Mind you, I personally think its better to have the data separate from the program, but not all programs allow this.

All you need to do is get to your user folder and add to the path line up in the edit box users\xxx\xxx\AppData just type at the end of the line and there you go. at least that works for me on 7

Jamie

I'm not sure what problem this solves. I have access to the AppData folder just fine. The issue was figuring out where windows was stashing the files. Turns out it is under a folder called "VirtualStore". Go figure!

Yeah, I know. This particular program won't find the data if it's not in the program files directory... at least I think. I am going to be digging into it a bit now that I've found the files.

I generally press the "windows" key then type "%APPDATA%". Hit enter.

Most of it is in there or go up a level for some other variants (Local, LocalLow,Roaming subfolders).

I use W7 for windows but it always seems to work AFAIK.