#115 Where does WinMerge store user data?

[Operation420.net]

On Windows 10, I see no folders under %UserProfile%\AppData\Local or %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming

Are settings and things like the MRU, last folders and filters in "Select Folder or Files" dialog when you click open stored in the registry?

I had 2.14 (32 Bit) installed and when I installed the latest 64 bit version (2.16.2, 64 Bit) I had two versions of WinDiff installed. Are the settings for these two versions stored in the same, or different config files and/or registry keys?

[Takashi Sawanaka]

both version 2.14 and 2.16 use HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge

[Jake]

It would make it easier migrating settings between computers or restoring settings after reinstalling Windows if the HKCU section of the registery was not used at all, and instead configuration settings were stored in files within AppData.

[Takashi Sawanaka]

In the next stable release of WinMerge, if you put the winmerge.ini file in the same location as WinMergeU.exe or specify the path of the INI file with the command line option /inifile, the INI file will be used instead of the registry.