Windows 11 How to Stop Configuration Files in OneDrive Documents

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André Fertig de Oliveira

I've become frustrated lately with the tendancy for applications to dump their configuration files in my Documents folder instead of the various other more appropriate directories. Worse still, Documents is one of the folders I keep synced to OneDrive, so all these files and folders I would scarcely even want to be seeing to begin with get synced and appear on devices that don't even have those applications installed! As much as I would love put a big sign up for programs to use AppData for their files instead, I don't believe that would work very well, and there isn't much I can do about nipp

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