Does anyone understand what this text might mean?

beginnerunknown 46 Reputation points
2021-12-20T06:18:18.523+00:00

I found this text in the appdata for my machines elan trackpoint device folder. Anyone know what it might be? All of the other folders were empty; however, this was logged or something like that. I am unable to copy and paste the text, that may be explainable as well.

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  1. Castorix31 81,826 Reputation points
    2021-12-20T09:05:19.077+00:00

    It is just a log in binary format of a (probably UWP) application
    Roaming, Local, ... are from ApplicationData

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  2. Siva-kumar-selvaraj 15,551 Reputation points
    2021-12-20T12:47:06.84+00:00

    Yes, as @Castorix31 pointed out, this appears to be logs. However, I have added the appropriate tags to this discussion in order to get more insight from community experts.

  3. beginnerunknown 46 Reputation points
    2021-12-20T17:44:54.267+00:00

    I suspected it was a log of some sort. I thought it was odd it was the only log in the file though, and the only data at all in the folders relating to my computers touch pad . According to process monitor, it looked like firefox was directing my computer to automatically, and repeatedly, create some sort of file in the roaming folder and then locking it, so I was surprised to find so little there as the process was occurring regularly. I was also interested in what it was logging and why it was logging it in the appdata for my touch pad. I do not have a browser profile set up and I do not use another machine, so I didn't think it would be saving information for logging in somewhere else.

    Is there a way to decipher what is actually being logged?

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