Can i delete AppData Roaming folder?

Hi Jean,

It is not recommended to delete Appdata\Roaming folder as it typically contains settings, temporary and cache files for many of your installed applications. In fact, once you look for the sub-folders under the name, you will find other folders related to different application installed on the computer.

If the folder is consuming too much space on the hard drive, it could be due to some of the files related to certain application installed on the computer which you may not know about. You might browse around a bit and find out which one it is in the folder. If any of the file name that looks or related to any application which you do not use or require on the computer, you may go ahead and uninstall the application from Control Panel.

Hope the information helps.

Please let us know if you have more queries on Windows.

"What the system did, it made a copy of the entire roaming folder to the new location but left the old one at the same place."

Is this current folder the 'real' Roaming folder, or the shortcuts in the 'Library' ?

The 'real' folder should have been moved, while a 'Library' would be created in the process.

You could try an experiment (assuming you are not referring to the Libraries).

Either rename the  Roaming folder, or create a new sub-folder in the Roaming folder and

move all the existing files/sub-folders  into that.

Creating a new sub-folder may be the better option to avoid Windows creating yet another Roaming folder.

• If you have problems with the software that uses this data then move the files back into the

original Roaming folder.

You wouldn't gain a lot of HDD space just moving the Roaming folder.

I believe most people move the whole User folder, or the music, video and photos folders if they have

a lot of these files, when needing more disk space.