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Revisit LibraryManager folder structure for app data #636

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On Windows, applications should not be creating folders/files directly in %USERPROFILE%. The proper location for configuration files is %APPDATA%<vendor><product> and the proper location for cache files is %LOCALAPPDATA%\<vendor>\<product>. Things should only be added to %USERPROFILE% if the user explicitly requests it via a save dialog box.

Please move %USERPROFILE%\.librarymanager to %APPDATA%\librarymanager as the default location. The fact that configuration files should go in %APPDATA% is well documented in Microsoft's OS documentation in a number of places as well as MSDN. Also, in Windows folders should not be named with a . prefix as Windows explorer doesn't allow creation of folders with that name which leads to problems.

related to: microsoft/vscode#3884

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