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    Vaio TZ - AppData and ntuser.dat.LOG? What is this?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Gazelle, Apr 19, 2008.

  1. Gazelle

    Gazelle Notebook Consultant

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    Hi.

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    I don't ever remember seeing this AppData folder, before. What is it? Sometimes, the size of the folder is above 3 GB, and other times it is only about 100 MB large. What is this folder?

    Also, there are two files that suddenly appeared in the same folder called ntuser.dat.LOG1 and ntuser.dat.LOG2. What are these files?

    All three of these things seem to have suddenly appeared out of no where. They weren't in this folder, before. Can anyone give me information about this?
     
    Gazelle, Apr 19, 2008
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    Duckfart Notebook Evangelist

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    Appdata folder appears because you have show hidden files selected in Organize tab. It stores all your application data in this folder.

    Again, unchecke the hidden files and the ntuse.data will disappear. Do not delete, they are part of the registry file for user data.
     
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  3. Gazelle

    Gazelle Notebook Consultant

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    I see. Thanks for the info!
     
    Gazelle, Apr 19, 2008
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