Cmder looking for user-aliases in wrong path

[jrappen]

After updating to v1.3.0:

Creating intial user-aliases store in "C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\config\user-aliases.cmd"...
C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\config\user-aliases.cmd
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung ist falsch.
        0 Datei(en) kopiert.
Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.

Roughly translated: Wrong syntax for file name, folder name or drive name. / 0 files copied. / System was unable to find the desired file.

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• File does exist.
• File is not being overwritten by cmder upon startup.

[jrappen]

Renaming user-aliases.cmd to aliases makes cmder find and rename the file to user-aliases.cmd correctly. Then the error above reappears.

[Stanzilla]

Did you maybe delete or not copy in https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/blob/master/vendor/user-aliases.cmd.example?

[jrappen]

Data is in %CMDER_ROOT%/config/user-aliases.cmd.

Had deleted the example file, yes. Re-added it. Output now is:

Creating intial user-aliases store in "C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\config\user-aliases.cmd"...
C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\config\user-aliases.cmd
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung ist falsch.
        0 Datei(en) kopiert.
        1 Datei(en) kopiert.

Aliases still don't work.

[Stanzilla]

Yeah you need to stop messing with the file structure on your own, I just tested it on a fresh folder and it works fine.

[jrappen]

Ok, other question. Where do I put my data from the old ../config/aliases then? Putting it in ../config/user-aliases.cmd didn't work.

[jrappen]

After readding the example file, closing and reopening cmder it now works as expected. Why is cmder messed up when removing the example file? I'm probably not the only one who'd do that.

[Stanzilla]

It uses it to generate the content of the real file, and yes I agree that the method is sub-optimal but better than what we had before. Maybe @daxgames will look into it again and maybe have the file generated without using a dummy file.

[daxgames]

@jrappen I know this is closed but want to make sure things are working as designed.

If you had an existing aliases file in %CMDER_ROOT%\config\aliases and copied the 1.3 release files from an extracted archive into %COMDER_ROOT% then the init.bat is supposed to update your existing aliases file to the new format. Did you copy the new release into an existing %CMDER_ROOT% folder or start with a fresh new folder with 1.3?

If %CMDER_ROOT%\config\aliases does not exist when launching 1.3 the first time, from a new folder, a new default %CMDER_ROOT%\config\user-aliases.cmd is created from the seed file.

[jrappen]

@daxgames I had downloaded v1.3.0 as zip and copied my old stuff into the then-extracted cmder root folder. Everything works fine, the renaming and creation if not present. My mistakes was that I had deleted %CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\user-aliases.cmd.example, which left cmder still able to create new and/or rename old aliases file in %CMDER_ROOT%\config\ however it wouldn't pick up data from there. Repasting the error from my first post in this thread:

Creating intial user-aliases store in "C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\config\user-aliases.cmd"...
C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\C:\Users\user\Downloads\cmder\config\user-aliases.cmd
Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung ist falsch.
        0 Datei(en) kopiert.
Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.

It seems like cmder was looking in %CMDER_ROOT%\%CMDER_ROOT%\config\user-aliases.cmd, so maybe there's a duplicate while setting the path in there somewhere?

/cc @Stanzilla