Why can I not see LocalLow and Local when I type in %AppData% into the Windows 7 Start Button Search, and how can I fix this issue?
I typed %AppData%
into the search box in Windows 7 that I get when when I click the Start Button. For some reason, all I see is the Roaming
folder, ever thought I have confirmed that LocalLow
and Local
folders do exist. Why are LocalLow and Local folders missing from the search box, and how can I fix this problem?
Solution 1:
Local
and LocalLow
are not actually in %AppData%
. As Hand-E-Food said, %AppData%
= %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming
.
Use %userprofile%\appdata\locallow
and either %userprofile%\appdata\local
or %localappdata%
.
There is no variable (eg %LocalAppDataLow%
) by default that points to the low-privilege local profile, but you could easily create one for yourself (you can also create a localappdata
variable in XP; for that matter, you can create all sorts of envvar shortcuts to different parts of your file-system).
Solution 2:
Because %AppData% points to:
C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Roaming
not
C:\Users\%Username%\AppData
From the command line, type Set (variablename)
to see what a variable is declared as, or just Set
to see all variable declarations.