Trying to make sapce on my C drive. I see that my Appdata/Local/Packages folder is almost 20GB!
Is it safe to delete this? If not, can it be 'pruned' without affecting installed applications?
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AppData folders store per-user information for applications, so if you delete an applications data, it will have to recreate it from default values. In effect the program will forget that you have used it before, configuration choices you may have made, saved files (like game savefiles), etc.
I would recommend you use a tool like windirstat to determine where the space is being used, and what application(s) rely on it. From there you can then begin to determine the impact of your proposed deletion.
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2If you use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) you will blow away your entire file system for any linux distribution used if you delete this folder.
