But what’s with the “Roaming”? Roaming around with WindowsĪppData\Roaming is designed for use in what I’ll call a corporate environment, though any widespread deployment of Windows in a large environment could be configured to make use of it.
Now, AppData makes sense – it’s where Applications place Data. Into that folder might be placed things like default templates, configuration files, and other support data that applications might use that a) might be different for other users of the machine, and b) aren’t your actual working documents. Where “Roaming” is a sub folder of “AppData”. As an example, on one of my machines the full path would be: c:\Users\LeoN\Appdata\Roaming The folder is normally hidden, and lives within your user account home folder. AppData\Roaming is where programs on your machine store data that is specific to your user account. It doesn’t have anything to do with wireless or the number of people using their computer in different places.ĪppData is a folder in your Windows user account home folder, and Roaming is a folder within that.
First, AppData\Roaming probably isn’t what you think it is.
