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Daniel Westerdale
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Apr 25, 2024
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Fix a broken $Profie location

  A couple of days ago I remove Documents from OneDrive which seems to have broken the "Oh my POSH" settings in my various terminals.      PowerShell 7.4.2 PS C:\Dev> $home C:\Users\daniel PS C:...
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    Daniel Westerdale
    Apr 29, 2024

    Harm_Veenstra 

     

     

    Ah in my case I have C:\Users\daniel\OneDrive and also through syncing with the other laptop the C:\Users\danie\OneDrive  ( I originally caused issue with my bad spelling lol.)

    So do I correct all the ones with the incorrect spelling given I have corrected the issue with the profile name.  

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Harm_Veenstra
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Apr 26, 2024

Daniel Westerdale Does this work? This recreates the profile in it's default location.

 

New-Item $profile -Force

 

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    Daniel Westerdale
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    Apr 28, 2024

    Harm_Veenstra 

     

    Thanks for the reply.

     

    I opened my windows terminal and entered both

     

    # attempt 1
New-Item $profile
# attempt 2
New-Item $profile -Value C:\Users\daniel\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 -force -ItemType File

    Unfortunately, neither work.

     

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      Harm_Veenstra
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      Apr 28, 2024
      Is the file created afterward? And if you re-enable the OneDrive backup, does it work?
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        Daniel Westerdale
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        Apr 28, 2024

        Harm_Veenstra 

         

        Hi the original issue was caused due my attempting at fixing an invalid profile name on my other laptop  with OneDrive Documents in place . Essentially, I want the profile just to reference my local path.

        I made another attempt at fixing the profile:

         

         

        $PROFILE = "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1"

         

        This re-enables my Oh My Posh settings but doesn't seem to persist the  $Profile path 

         

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