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		Wowfunhappy on Feb 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dotfile madness ^ This. And the amazing thing is it's probably the least common place for games to put save data. I think I've played exactly one game that ever used it.

dmitrygr on Feb 2, 2019 [–]

Most likely because the proper API to get the path to that folder was vista-or-later and games preferred to be backward compatible

Wowfunhappy on Feb 2, 2019 | [–]

Okay, but now nothing supports XP, so there's no excuse!

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