Facing problems with my automated media center

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mrgrandmsc
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Facing problems with my automated media center

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Hi,
So filebot has been working just fine these past few months. A week ago, however, (can't for the life of me figure out what i changed to make this happen) my automated setup hasn't been working. I noticed about 10 files hadn't been transferred to my media folder so I tried using filebot in the cmd prompt and what I got was this:

'filebot' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I'm a n00b at cmd and this whole shebang (so please bear with me)but was able to fully automate everything through your handy tutorial. I did some digging to figure out how I could solve my problem and what I found that the most likely reason for my problem is a PATH issue.
I looked at the enviroment variables tab and it seemed like windows SHOULD be able to find filebot and execute it. I even added a line there to make sure but it didn't help. So what gives?
Any insight for my problem would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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mrgrandmsc
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Re: Facing problems with my automated media center

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I posted the below picture but forgot to save an error I made in the last row which didn't yield any results the first time (put a ' instead of a \, silly me)
Automated System seems to be working just fine now, but does anyone have any clue what may have caused the issue in the first place? I don't recall doing anything that might have toyed with enviroment variables (I'm a simple user, after all)
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Re: Facing problems with my automated media center

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By default, WindowsApps are in the %PATH% because the Windows Store makes sure there's a link to the executable in that folder.

However, some installers that update the %PATH% (maybe Skype, maybe QuickTime, etc) are buggy and remove folders from the %PATH% when adding themselves.

TL;DR one of the installers you ran recently removed WindowsApps from the %PATH%
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