P3D AppData issue

[cowpatz 243]

I was just reading Robs post on Ground shadows and noticed that my P3D cfg file is located in a different position to his.

Rob's config file is located in the Local folder of App data and mine is in the Roaming folder. Within that folder I also have a Prepar3D and a Prepar3Dv2 folder and that some of the contents of the Prepar3D folder appear to be the same as the Prepar3Dv2 folder.

in the Appdata/Local folder I have a Prepar3Dv2 folder that just contains a shader folder.

Is this normal or should they all be in the same Appdata location and the Prepar3D folder be deleted?

What is it supposed to be?

[Jim Robinson 122]

It all sounds normal to me, %appdata% is C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming on my machine and that's where my .cfg, dll.xml, etc. are located. My shaders cache is in C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Local\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2. Rob may have just mis-typed.

 

When I first installed P3D2 from the v2.0 full installer I had a Prepar3D and a Prepar3D v2 folder too in %appdata%, I've since uninstalled and reinstalled two or three times and I see the Prepar3D folder is gone now, I may have deleted it when I installed one of the SPs, apparently it never grew back. I don't think it serves any purpose.

[cowpatz 243]

Thanks Jim...it be gone!

Doesn't seem to be any adverse affect. I'll wait a bit before "pulling the chain" on the recycle bin.

[Smoky942 1]

In C:/user/myname/Appdata/Roaming/Lockheed Martin  I have two folders containing the P3D cfg,  Prepar3D  and Prepar3D v2   One is for version 1.4 and the other for version 2.3, which is correct as I have both versions installed.

 

/Russell.

[Jim Robinson 122]

Of course, that would make sense if you have both versions installed, I only have v2 installed and never have had v1.4 installed, yet I still ended up with an appdata\Prepar3D folder for v1.4. I guess I assumed the same for cowpatz

 

cowpatz if you have v1.4 installed as well you should restore that folder from your recycle bin, lol.

 

Jim

[cowpatz 243]

No I'm like you Jim I have never had 1.4 installed. It all seems fine with it gone anyway.

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