Or turn on "Show hidden files" in Explorer settings and just go to that folder, since it's just a hidden folder in the user directory

Eleven is one better than ten.

Show hidden folders and show file extensions are the first two toggles I turn on on explorer. Then follows registry changes to restore old context menus and use notepad++ instead of windows notepad.

You gotta do this in linux to... at least in ubuntu

I do this as well. Also i normally just go to the location then hit the bar and type in appdata at the end to proceed. Same with programdata.

Which you can reach with a %-based shortcut!

To regular users, it is like magic.

It makes sense if you want to concatenate strings, which is probably pretty much what happens when you type that into the path input.

This way, you could create a string like "D:/%appdata%/local/minecraft" Whereas without the trailing %, you would need a space to separate it from the text, which would result in "D:/Users/Public/AppData /local/minecraft".

(i havent used windows in a while and those paths are from memory, they might be wrong)

Technically $foo also delimits at both ends, the second character is just a newline or whitespace character. However with %foo% it is unambiguous where the variable begins and ends.

Also I said newline or whitespace, what about special characters?

Look at $foo+$bar am I adding two variables together? Is the first variable $foo or $foo+?

Windows also has a language that denotes variables with the dollar as well (powershell). Or you can use bash too

The reason many games "pollute" the My Documents folder is that in the past, that was also where Microsoft designated the My Games and Saved Games folders. Minecraft was the first game I ever saw that actually put things in the appdata folders. And I still think it's weird that the entire game gets installed there, and not Program Files.

One public and one for thr current user?

... one is ... further away?

I remember this being from one of the OpenAI Sora video model demonstrations.

I guess we could always ask @sgt.swampass 🫡

An envirbroment variable. Teehee!