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File redirection question
Hi, This file redirection feature is very confusing to me. I have an application that writes to the temp folder (in localappdata) and the roaming appdata folder. Right now these files are stored i...
Sushant_Bansal
Microsoft
Microsoft
Along with trying out community suggestions to resolve this issue through redirectTargetBase, Could you let us know more details on the issue you are facing of having appdata in package's appdata folder (localappdata\packages\appname\localcache). It is usually not recommended to write any MSIX application app data outside of Package AppData folder (localappdata\packages\appname\).
Yes I did some research on it and it seems to be by design that it writes to that directory. No big deal since FSLogix is saving that location to the profile. So I just removed the redirecttargetbase, not redirecting anything right now and will leave it like this. It's just that some users want to manipulate that file, so I just have to instruct them of the new location.
Thanks.
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