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Discussion on: How to customize the new Windows Terminal with Visual Studio Code

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jyggorath • Edited

After creating a new profile, I get the following error when opening the terminal app: "Failed to load settings" "Settings could not be loaded from file - temporarily using the default settings. Check for syntax errors, including trailing commas."

I have checked with a validator, and there is no JSON syntax error, it conforms with RFC4627.

And I can't see that any of the keys are wrong, they're all copy-pasted. I've tried using both \\ and / as directory separator in the path to the background image, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. And the background image does exist on that path. Also, I made sure the GUID was new and not used by any other profiles.

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Jyothish Kumar

I think it is because you probably modified the GUID by yourself. I used an online GUID generator to fix this problem. I don't know how GUIDs work but since there are generators out there, I tried out one and it worked.