How To Clear App Data In Windows 7

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Hi Ankit,

Thank you for posting the question in Microsoft Community!

You want to delete the contents of AppData folder.

The AppData folder would have data regarding the applications in the computer.

If its contents are deleted, data would be lost and you may not be able to use some applications as well.

You could refer the site mentioned:

Strategies for freeing disk space

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows7/Strategies-for-freeing-disk-space

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I have the same problem with the app data folder but it is taking up 400gb of my drive now this cant be right, there is something wrong with this folder.

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I have exactly the same issue...the app data folder has close to 400GB as well. I have to poke and search through to see what to delete and what to save? How can that be correct or even remotely user friendly???

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Applications store their user-specific files and settings there, and deleting them may cause loss of essential data. What I do normally is to browse through each and every folder under AppData and delete any unused folder, created by software which I uninstalled already. Backing them up beforehand is a good idea.

ex-MVP (2003-2012) (Windows Client)

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I can tell you what is wrong. Check the microsoft folder it is probably responsible for 90% of your wasted space, because the programmers at microsoft are lazy and incompetent. They do not know how to clean up after themselves (i.e., delete temporary files).

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Free some space using other techniques?! what is that? ........ what about my AppData which is 17.0GB it's very frustrating, Microsoft should do something.....we are really need help.

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Rubly

CCleaner is a great tool to use for deleting anything unneeded in AppData. I have seen CCleaner remove over 500 GB of temporary files (AppData is included) on a few customers machines, but it is rare.

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Matthew Rubly
Computer Repair Technician

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In your app data folder theirs a folder called "Application Data"
if you changed permissions to get access to it, or any upper level folder,
you may have broken the Junction, and the folder will have multiple replicas of the app data
folder. See this link for explanation http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/115149-stop-application-data-folder-replicating.html

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Hey All,

I believe I finally found the solution for this issue.

I looked into it myself trying to see which folder takes the highest space. I found it under APP DATA> Local > Microsoft> Office. 16.0. OfficeFileCache

I don't know what is that exactly, but it contained over 16,000 file with the extension .FSD

The total size was 35GB

I took the risk and deleted them all and it worked (at least till now :D)

I don't know is this is right or not, but I was struggling with my 64GB tablet to fix the storage size.

Please let me know your opinions and suggestions and comments.

Thanks in advance

Ahmed

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I finally realise that if you have an iphone , ipad....And using iTunes for Backup data. May be it the main reason for this problem. Following this link :

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

May be you will meet things you needs.

P/s : How to show hidden folder. You need go to Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Show hidden files and folders. Next stick on Show hidden files, folders, Drivers.

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