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Daniel Westerdale

Brass Contributor

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.

Daniel Westerdale

Brass Contributor

Apr 28, 2024

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.

MVP

Apr 28, 2024

Is the file created afterward? And if you re-enable the OneDrive backup, does it work?

Daniel Westerdale
Brass Contributor
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
- Harm_Veenstra
  MVP
  Apr 29, 2024
  I was just wondering since you deleted the My Documents in your OneDrive... Did you have a backup of My Desktop, My Pictures, and My Documents configured? If you right-click your My Documents folder in Windows Explorer and select properties... What folder does the Location tab specify?
  - Daniel Westerdale
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 29, 2024
    Harm_Veenstra
    
    Good morning. No backup as yet which I will remedy shortly. I do appear to have lost the My Documents quick access although Downloads, Music, Pictures all seem ok.
    
    You have got me thinking : open up the recycle bin as all my previous PowerShell modules are located at c:\daniel\OneDrive\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules.
    
    Could these be the next steps:
    Restore these and back up this directory
    Re-add Documents to OneDrive
    Copy files over from backed up directory
    Check / amend the $Profile

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