Adobe After Effects Windows AppData Folders
I've noticed something interesting; in the appdata roaming folder on Windows (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe), After Effects seems to be creating several versions of the Adobe folder:
Each of the "Adobe" folders with a strange character in front only contain an "After Effects" folder, which is what's tipping me off that this is After Effects specifically (as opposed to another Adobe program).
For more information, in each of these strange Adobe folders, there is only a linear chain of nested folders leading to the single file at the path:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\֨Adobe\After Effects\13.0\AfterFX13.ini
The contents of this file look like this:
[After_Effects]
UseLegacyMainWindowClassName=0
UseAltPreviewTimingMode=0
Quicktime Use GDI Only=1
UseSafeXorMode=0
MinimalGdiItemCreation=1
PurgeBytesForExhaustedGDIObjects=4000000
UseDirectDraw=1
UseStretchBlt=0
DirectDrawMoniker=0
UseBitfieldsIfPossible=0
WorkaroundStretchDIBitsBug=1
TrackMemoryWithGPMI=1
DontCheckSpaceDrives=P
QueueAudioPlayback=1
UseControlFPKey64_2=1
ControlFPMaskKey64_2=50856735
ControlFPValuesKey64_2=524319
[After Effects]
UsePhotoshopTextScript=1
[Codec]
KeepOpen=MJPG
Cant32Codec=YVU9,YV92
I'm using AE CC 2014.0, if that helps, but I'm just curious as to what could be causing this. I'm not sure if modern versions of After Effects do this as well.
This isn't really a problem, but just a curiosity of mine; I would simply like to understand what's happening. Thanks!
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