You are absolutely right that programs should not place things in the
Windows hidden _AppData folder but Legacy does not use the Windows
folder. It creates an _AppData folder in the user's documents area where
it is not hidden.
Brian Kelly
On 25-Jun-17 2:05 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
Using the _AppData folder for any files that relate to the user and
their data SHOULD BE BANNED.
I suspect that MicroSoft designed it for internal files relating to
applications, which it does not matter if they are lost, and that is why
they made the folder hidden so that we would not see it.
Of course, we then decide to include it in our backups, because we have
an application which seems to think that putting user data there is a
(NOT) good idea, and have the exercise of finding out exactly which
folders we want to include and which to exclude, especially since some
applications place very large files in their _AppData folders.
/rant
Regards
Chris
*From:*LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]]
*On Behalf Of *Denise Moss-Fritch
*Sent:* 25 June 2017 17:44
*To:* 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Tip of the Day
Michele,
I was very interested to read the following in your post:
You need to backup your _AppData folder. This folder holds your custom
settings.
Has there ever been a feature recommendation to include the _AppData
folder in Legacy’s backup system? As important as this folder is I would
expect the folder would have been included as part of the backup long ago.
Denise
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