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M docs/configuration.rst

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@@ 26,10 26,11 @@ contain the full file path to one or mor
 Location
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-Whoswho will look for your configuration file in the following locations in this order
+Whoswho uses the appdirs_ module to find your configuration file. We look for your `whoswho.cfg` file in the `user_data_dir` location, which is usually;
 
- * Current working directory
- * User's home directory
- * Application installation directory
+ * `~/Local/Application Support/whoswho/whoswho.cfg`  on Mac OS
+ * `~/.local/share/whoswho/whoswho.cfg` on Linux
+ * `C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\local\whoswho\whoswho.cfg` on Windows
 
-.. _ini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file
  No newline at end of file
+.. _ini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file
+.. _appdirs: https://github.com/ActiveState/appdirs