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Dear QGIS Support Team,</div>
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We are facing a recurring issue with QGIS Desktop on our new Windows multi-session machine.</div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">On <b>first launch</b>, QGIS loads fine with Python support and plugins.</div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">On <b>second launch</b>, Python support fails with the error:</div>
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<b>Environment</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">QGIS 3.40.10 (Bratislava) – new server</div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">QGIS 3.40.7 – old server (works fine for same users)</div>
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<b>Steps Already Tried</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">Created new QGIS profiles</div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">Reinstalled QGIS (offline installer)</div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">Renamed/deleted <code>profiles\default</code></div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">Copied working profiles from old server</div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">Edited <code>user.py</code> to handle
<code>exist_ok=True</code> and file checks</div>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0px;" role="presentation">Deleting <code>expressions</code> works only once → error returns on next launch</div>
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<b>Request</b></div>
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Could you please confirm what's the solution to the issue with QGIS is and advise on a permanent fix?</div>
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Snapshots of the errors are attached.</div>
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Best regards,</div>
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