The user's home dir is in a different path when Ubuntu is installed from the Microsoft Store

[0xjams]

After a Windows reinstall, Ubuntu was installed differently, and the users' ~ path was in a different Windows location, now it is here:

C:\Users\{name}\AppData\Local\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\

I am not sure if the string right after UbuntuonWindows varies for each installation.

To make it work again, I just changed a line on the function called lxssPath to this:

$lxssPath_ = trim(exec('cmd.exe /c "echo %LOCALAPPDATA%" 2> /dev/null')) . "\\Packages\\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\\LocalState\\rootfs";

I hope this helps.

[laurent22]

Hmm, yes maybe now that WSL can support multiple Linux images, this trick won't work properly. Thanks anyway for sharing in case it helps somebody.

[Abhinickz]

May be this ~ path could be saved on some config file, If Users path differs then User could change it manually.