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Workaround for the new official Minecraft Launcher (Windows) #3333

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KillerGoldFisch opened this issue Dec 3, 2021 · 5 comments
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@KillerGoldFisch
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The new verion of the official launcher renamed the launcher_profiles.json to launcher_profiles_microsoft_store.json.
A workaround is to create a symlink between those two files. This way you dont have to rename the same file over and over again.

‼ This only worls on the Windows version

  1. Make sure there is only the launcher_profiles_microsoft_store.json file in your .minecraft directory and it is your used version. Delete launcher_profiles.json if present.

  2. Open a command line as administrator

  3. Run the command mklink %APPDATA%\.minecraft\launcher_profiles.json %APPDATA%\.minecraft\launcher_profiles_microsoft_store.json

  4. Check your .minecraft directory. There should now be a launcher_profiles.json file with the filetype (not name extension!) .symlink.

The launcher_profiles.json and launcher_profiles_microsoft_store.json are the same file. Every change in one of them will affect both. This way there will no confusion about which file to use.

I hope this helps.

@CesiumCs
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fucking legendary man, i'll see if i can annoy a dev to get this actually put into the installer

@TheConwayy
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THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH

@CesiumCs CesiumCs pinned this issue Dec 14, 2021
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@wellsilver
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You can also get the launcher from minecrafts website

@KillerGoldFisch
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You can also get the launcher from minecrafts website

Sorry, but i fail to see the relevance of your comment. Did you even read the the description?

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wellsilver commented Feb 10, 2022

Sorry, but i fail to see the relevance of your comment.

I downloaded the new launcher from minecraft.net (before this issue was made) and there was no issues, nothing changed

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