AppData folder: am I a joke to you?

  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    I’d be rich if I had a penny for every time a savegame or config file is stored somewhere totally whack.

    Fun thing of you enable protected folders on windows: No app can get write access your Documents folder (or Images or Videos or…) unless you put them explicitly on the whitelist. That means you get to experience all the programs that are crashing or hanging or… just because they’re simply assuming that that’s the best place to dump data and because these folders always exist, you don’t need proper error handling in case you cannot access them…