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I noticed that some addons were reading and writing to %appdata%/XMBC/ on my Windows 7 machine even though Kodi doesn't use it.  Even if they could be using special: URLs, they might be bypassing those.  Hence, the installer should create symbolic links from the old location to the new one when the file system supports them.  I did that on my machine.

if add-ons are hardcoding a path and not using our VFS paths, then the add-ons need to be fixed/changed and not Kodi.

I agree.  But a symbolic link would help with addons that have been abandoned.  Most addons unchanged since the XMBC era probably have been.