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Gregory Goeppel
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Aug 10, 2022

C# settings user.config doesn't work with MSIX?

I understand that msix cleans up on an uninstall but during an update the updated app can't see the old user.config settings file.    C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\app1\app1_Url_tv0lhtgrunve3jayvna3...
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harshada2019
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Feb 23, 2023
Sorry for the delay in responding. The path you shared appears to be a Win32 app's AppData location. Packaged app's AppData will be under C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Packages\... Migration across a Win32 app's AppData to it's MSIX equivalent does not seem possible.

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