Why are there directories called Local, LocalLow, and Roaming under \Users\<username>\AppData?

Become part of the top 3% of the developers by applying to Toptal https://topt.al/25cXVn

--

Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Ominous Technology Looping

--

Chapters
00:00 Question
00:53 Accepted answer (Score 217)
02:15 Answer 2 (Score 70)
03:43 Answer 3 (Score 17)
04:18 Thank you

--

Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/21458/wh...

Question links:
[AD]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Dire...

Accepted answer links:
[roaming profile]: https://web.archive.org/web/200602170650...
[This document from Microsoft]: https://web.archive.org/web/201206211311...(

Answer 3 links:
[this blog post]: https://helgeklein.com/blog/2009/01/inte.../

--

Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...

--

Tags
#windows #thunderbird #userprofiles

#avk47