I just recently followed some instructions to reset GitHub for Windows by deleting two folders in the explorer found under %AppData% and %LocalAppData% respectively.
I've seen these paths before but never understood them, and searching for them didn't yield the information I wanted to find.
What does the percent sign mean in filepaths on Windows (as opposed to navigating via C:\Users\etc), and what are the folders AppData and LocalAppData?
Answer
%WORD% is how cmd.exe (and Windows in general) does variables. So %AppData% is the variable name for the application data directory.
C:\Users\USERNAME>echo The value of ^%AppData^% is %AppData%
The value of %AppData% is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming
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