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+The game only writes files here if you specified -writableRoot on the command line.
+Otherwise, the logs can be found in %appdata%\0ad\logs on Windows and
+$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/0ad/logs on Unix systems ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to ~/.config)
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