{"id":49659,"date":"2020-07-16T03:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=49659"},"modified":"2020-09-09T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T07:25:10","slug":"windows-appdata-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-appdata-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows AppData Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/appdata_research.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Windows AppData Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/appdata_research.jpg\" title=\"Windows AppData Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows AppData Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Windows user who has not heard of AppData it is possible that &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you have never had a major bug occur with Windows, and we congratulate you &#8230; or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>you execute a very limited number of programs and applications &#8230; or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>you pass error messages onto support to fix everything<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many applications need to write to a Windows &#8220;place&#8221; and a user&#8217;s &#8220;AppData&#8221; place is a good place, quite often. Though there is an element that, if everything goes well, you&#8217;ll never need to see or know of these arrangements, it is still good to understand how the environment variable %AppData% can be your tool into researching troubleshooting issues if such applications fail.<\/p>\n<p>An issue occurred hereabouts resulting in an error message with Arbortext&#8217;s <a target=_blank title='Epic' href='http:\/\/goomba.com\/www3\/XML\/xmlid2\/node21.html'>Epic<\/a> XML text editor, coincidentally the day after a &#8220;blue screen of death&#8221; reboot of the Windows 10 computer.<\/p>\n<p>We thought you might be interested in some of the <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/appdata_research.pdf\" title=\"Click picture\">troubleshooting of the error message<\/a> through to a fix (noting that DOS &#8220;set&#8221; command is missing off the PDF slides showing a list of Windows environment variables), involving &#8220;AppData&#8221; issues where, when we refer to &#8220;AppData&#8221; we could be talking about either &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;AppData&#8221; set of folders on the Windows user&#8217;s C: drive (usually) &#8230; or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>%AppData% the system environment variable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; the latter a crucial part of you, the user, being more proactive helping with feedback and\/or fixing and troubleshooting problems, on a Windows computer with an error message mentioning &#8220;AppData&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d49659' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d49659\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/windows\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d49659' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a Windows user who has not heard of AppData it is possible that &#8230; you have never had a major bug occur with Windows, and we congratulate you &#8230; or &#8230; you execute a very limited number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-appdata-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,37],"tags":[3413,3361,234,358,1756,3360,1929,2267,3412,2821,1757,1313,1319,1435,1440],"class_list":["post-49659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-operating-system","category-tutorials","tag-appdata","tag-cmd","tag-command-line","tag-dos","tag-environment","tag-environment-variable","tag-error","tag-error-message","tag-mkdir","tag-set","tag-system","tag-troubleshooting","tag-tutorial","tag-windows","tag-windows-explorer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49659"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49666,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659\/revisions\/49666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}