J'ai récemment followed some instructions to reset GitHub for Windows by deleting two folders found within `%AppData%` and `%LocalAppData%`, and J'ai vu these paths before, but never understood them, and searching for them didn't yield the information I wanted to find.
Que fait the percent sign mean in chemin de fichiers on Windows, as opposed to navigating to `C:\Users\etc`, and what are the folders `%AppData%` and `%LocalAppData%`?
Qu'est-ce que "%AppData%"?
Re: Qu'est-ce que "%AppData%"?
`%WORD%` is how `cmd.exe`, and Windows in general, does variables, so `%AppData%` is the variable name for the Application Data directory.
```
$ echo The value of ^%AppData^% is %AppData%
The value of %AppData% is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming
```
```
$ echo The value of ^%AppData^% is %AppData%
The value of %AppData% is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming
```