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by Aerroon 898 days ago
But why split up the application like that? Why not have a folder for each application that just contains everything?

Everything being in one place by default also means that a user can just copy the entire application folder as a backup.
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johnny22 898 days ago
Because it'd be really nice to have a place with just application data to backup. no configs, no application state. Or alternatively it's nice to have a place to just factory reset all your app config, but keep all the data.
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Aerroon 897 days ago
But would you trust that you would actually get all the app's configs? Ie window position and all that.

And would you trust that you would only affect that one application and not any others?

And wouldn't you just unusual and reinstall the application anyway?

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