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As it took far too much Googling to find this, if you need to access the AppData folder for the System account, go here:
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local
I hit this because we needed to clear the NuGet package cache for a TeamCity build agent which was running as a service under the System account.
Can’t you just do Start –> Run –> %APPDATA% ?
Not for the “Local System” user account.
Thanks for putting this out here, I had some trouble finding this location as well.
Note that, while this is true for NuGet, if your application uses logging and stores the logging in %APPDATA%, it will end up in the same location except it’s AppData\Roaming (as opposed to AppData\Local).
Great! I spent an hour searching for this. Since the cache folder needs admin permissions to open, it doesn’t show up in the search as well. Thanks a lot for posting this. Big thumbs up!
Thank you so much for this post. I spent a long time trying to look for the AppData folder location and none of the answers I found online worked except this one.
Hi James, thanks for posting it.
Thank you, you just saved me from the rabbit hole.
Thank you, i was trying to find where some log files were being generated when a command was exectued as system user. You’re a star 🙂
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