Finally! I checked the option for “Show hidden files and folders” (and made a couple of other changes while I was in there) and now I can finally find the correct path. This window has a “View” tab that reveals the old View options I am used to seeing. Still no joy.įinally, in the tool bar, under the “Organize” drop down, I find an option for “Folder and Search Options”. So I right-click in the folder, select “Customize This Folder”, and … nothing. No problem, I thought, I just need to alter the view to show hidden files and folders, something I’ve done a hundred times on Windows machines. Of course, that is when I realized that the folder was hidden.
I went back to Windows Explorer and could not see the folder. Sure enough, it turns out to be C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local. In Vista C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\ has been replaced with simply C:\Users\%user%\.īut I couldn’t find anything there like what I needed, nor anywhere else for that matter, so I wrote a quick little Console application to output the Special Folder path. On XP, the directory path was something like C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Local Applications\Application Data\. I looked all through the Vista folder structure, which only served to frustrate me. I then went to his new Vista PC … and couldn’t find the correct folder path.
So I began by copying his binary file to a network location for later retrieval.
Hey, anything that makes his life easier makes my life easier! My boss has a ton of configuration information in his current install of this application, and I thought it would be a good thing to simply copy his current configuration over to his new machine. I was installing one of our applications that stores a serialized file in the special folder LocalApplicationData. Today, while setting up a new Vista PC for my boss, I came across a great reason why this approach is a good idea. Way back in January I posted about using Windows Special Folders for storing application data.
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