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I have a workstation running Windows Server 2008 that's logged into an AD domain, and I have a dual boot with Ubuntu Linux. When running Linux, I'd like to be able to use the same Thunderbird profile I use under Windows, so I pointed Thunderbird to use a profile I found under:
\Users\(myname)\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles
It turns out it was not the correct profile -- it had the right configuration, but the Inbox was an old version. I eventually found out the correct path was:
\Users\(myname)\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles
What's the rationale behind those different places to store application data?
@JaredHarley, So shouldn't
LocalLow
actually be placed atLocal/Low
instead? Also, how did you manage to find those resources? Did you wrote them? – Pacerier – 2015-06-24T23:38:43.9037What is
lower integrity level
w.r.t any application or internet explorer for that matter? – RBT – 2017-02-23T01:50:44.1301Are there any noteworthy differences when it comes to Windows versions above 7 (i.e. 8, 8.1 and 10)? – Palec – 2017-06-09T16:59:02.943
1@Jared, Why does Google use
local
instead ofroaming
then? – Pacerier – 2017-07-29T11:10:29.0901@Pacerier I guess Google wants to manage roaming (synchronization) themselves. – Franklin Yu – 2018-04-17T15:29:20.230
The "Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide" is long, but only mentions LocalLow twice and does not answer @RBT's question. – JosiahYoder-deactive except.. – 2018-07-13T14:40:13.400
2As for Thunderbird, the TB profile should actually live in Roaming but the cache of downloaded mails, at least for IMAP accounts definitely should be elsewhere. If I were in a domain here, there'd be a lot of copying going on on each logon/-off with 1+ GiB of mails. – Joey – 2009-08-11T21:56:49.347
Yeah, that would be bad - especially if the roaming profile was trying to sync on a slow connection! – Jared Harley – 2009-08-11T22:17:03.517
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This link from Microsoft (same as above, but not a doc) has a good explanation of folders, what is used where, and relationship to folders in XP.
– mindless.panda – 2011-08-24T14:33:33.2301
@Howiecamp, yes, this link details the SpecialFolders enumeration for .NET 4.0. Developers choose which folder to save data to, in this case either
– mindless.panda – 2011-08-24T14:35:26.520ApplicationData
orLocalApplicationData
.2I guess the choice of Local* bs Roaming is the app developer's choice? – Howiecamp – 2009-12-28T00:08:58.170