[Pardon the Windows-noob question!]
It often happens that the paths I can read off the Windows Explorer GUI do not correspond to anything I can see with
DIR (in the
CMD command line).
For example, if I run this in
C:\>dir "Users\Yours Truly"
the output does not show anything resembling
AppData, and yet
C:\>cd "Users\Yours Truly\AppData"
succeeds, and now the
CMD prompt reads
C:\Users\Yours Truly\AppData>, and, unsurprisingly, running
CD without arguments just confirms this:
C:\Users\Yours Truly\AppData>cd C:\Users\Yours Truly\AppData
I can think of two possible explanations (though I'm sure there are many more):
C:\Users\Yours Truly\AppDatais not a "real" path; it gets translated to the real path behind the scenes;
C:\Users\Yours Truly\AppDatais an "invisible" path, not normally displayed by
(Certainly, 1 and 2 are not mutually exclusive:
C:\Users\Yours Truly\AppData could be a special type of shortcut that is not displayed by
DIR (at least by default).)
Could someone shed some light on this situation? If (1) is true, how can I find out the "real" path? If (2) is true, how can I instruct
DIR to display paths like