Roaming folder contains data that can move with the user profile from a computer to a computer. Local folder contains data that cannot move with your user profile. LocalLow folder includes low-level access data, eg. temporary files of your browser when running in a protected mode.

Can I Delete the Local, LocalLow, and Roaming Folders? Yes, but no. Deleting these folders can not only possibly break Windows, but they will also indeed remove most of your program settings. Since these folders are protected, you’d have to boot into safe mode, then delete them and immediately regret it.

The Roaming folder contains data that would “roam” with a user account from computer to computer if your PC was connected to a domain with a roaming profile. This is often used for important settings.

It is not recommended to delete Appdata/Roaming folder as it typically contains settings, temporary and cache files for many of your installed applications. In fact, once you look for the sub-folders under the name, you will find other folders related to different application installed on the computer.

Yes, you can because some of those old files can become corrupt. So if you delete the entire folder nothing bad will happen. All of the ones that you need, the programs will create new ones. And if you can’t delete some then a program you are running is running those temp files so just leave those alone.

Local stores data only on one PC. It’s up to the developers what goes where, but generally data in the Local folder is too large to sync or not worth syncing. In a domain environment, data in the Roaming folder will stay with a user’s profile if they move to a different computer.

That’s because Windows hides the AppData folder by default, and you have to ‘unhide’ it before you can see it. Under Files and Folders > Hidden files and folders, select the option to Show hidden files, folders and drives. Click OK.

When the program session is closed all temp files can be deleted without harm to the program. The .. /AppData/Local/Temp folder is used by other applications as well, not only by FlexiCapture. Only the files that are not in use will be removed, it will not influence system operation.

To clean up the AppData directory, you can use the built-in Windows 10 Disk Cleanup Wizard. Go to Settings > System > Storage and select your system drive. Select Temporary files. Select Temporary Internet Files and Temporary files and click the Remove Files button.

If you have Show hidden items available, you may have noticed the Local, LocalLow, and Roaming folders under Quick access or Users > UserName > AppData and wondered what they’re used for. Here’s the story. TIP: Hard to fix Windows Problems?

As I mentioned earlier, there are three folders inside AppData – Local, LocalLow, and Roaming. The Local folder is used to store data that is specific to a single windows system, which means data is not synced between multiple PCs.

You can also access the AppData folder directly using the AppData system variable. Search for “Run” in the windows search as shown below, or press the Windows + R button to open the Run App. In the run app text box, enter “%AppData%” and click OK.

If you were to export your user profile, the apps and the data stored under Local wouldn’t go with it. LocalLow is the same as Local however, the apps that save data here do so because they do not have access rights to save data to Local or because the data is of such nature that files for it should not be saved to Local or Roaming.