{"id":3897,"date":"2017-12-24T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T12:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2017-12-24T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T12:09:21","slug":"aside-how-to-roam-appdatalocal-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/aside-how-to-roam-appdatalocal-too\/","title":{"rendered":"[Aside] How to roam AppData\\Local too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R4R4QlExLsU&amp;t=3s\">this video<\/a> from James Rankin. Apart from being an excellent video, it has one important thing which I felt I must note down here as a reference to myself. I always thought <code>AppData\\Local<\/code> and <code>AppData\\LocalLow<\/code> were not synced as part of your roaming profile because they were special in some way. Today I realized that there&#8217;s nothing special about them. They are not synced because of a key called <code>ExcludeProfileDirs<\/code> in <code>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon<\/code>. Any folder mentioned there is not synced as part of your roaming profile. Nice!<\/p>\n<p>So to make <code>AppData\\Local<\/code> roam, simply remove it from that registry key. Then selectively add any sub-folders you might want to exclude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this video from James Rankin. Apart from being an excellent video, it has one important thing which I felt I must note down here as a reference to myself. I always thought AppData\\Local and AppData\\LocalLow were not synced as part of your roaming profile because they were special in some way. Today I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/aside-how-to-roam-appdatalocal-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Aside] How to roam AppData\\Local too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[258,657,85],"tags":[269,466,467],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}