Error trying to run Jabref from windows command line

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Hello JabRef Team :slight_smile:
My name is John and I am interested in trying to assist the JabRef project. I followed the instructions (quite good, by the way) at guidelines-for-setting-up-a-local-workspace but end up with an error when trying to run .\gradlew run from my windows command prompt. I get the error below.
I am not able to run JabRef this way. I have followed the instructions, setup up my environment path variables, taking care to ensure JAVA-HOME was correct and removing old entries for a different Java version. Any advice of how to proceed?
I look forward to your reply and I am eager to work on issue #9119 :grin:
`c:\Users\John\IdeaProjects\jabref>.\gradlew run

Configure project :
Project : => ‘org.jabref’ Java module
Task :run
2022-09-04 19:48:29 [JavaFX Application Thread] org.jabref.logic.net.ssl.TrustStoreManager.createTruststoreFileIfNotExist()
INFO: Trust store path: C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\org.jabref\JabRef\ssl\truststore.jks
2022-09-04 19:48:29 [JavaFX Application Thread] org.jabref.gui.JabRefMain.start()
ERROR: Unexpected exception: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke “String.isEmpty()” because “originalDirectory” is null at org.jabref@100.0.0/org.jabref.preferences.JabRefPreferences.determineMainFileDirectory(JabRefPreferences.java:2174) at org.jabref@100.0.0/org.jabref.preferences.JabRefPreferences.getFilePreferences(JabRefPreferences.java:2189) at org.jabref@100.0.0/org.jabref.preferences.JabRefPreferences.getFileLinkPreferences(JabRefPreferences.java:1110) at org.jabref@100.0.0/org.jabref.preferences.JabRefPreferences.getLayoutFormatterPreferences(JabRefPreferences.java:1123) at org.jabref@100.0.0/org.jabref.preferences.JabRefPreferences.getCustomExportFormats(JabRefPreferences.java:2293)
at org.jabref@100.0.0/org.jabref.gui.JabRefMain.applyPreferences(JabRefMain.java:175)
at org.jabref@100.0.0/org.jabref.gui.JabRefMain.start(JabRefMain.java:106)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication1$9(LauncherImpl.java:847)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runAndWait$12(PlatformImpl.java:484)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$10(PlatformImpl.java:457)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:399)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$11(PlatformImpl.java:456)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:96)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
at javafx.graphics@18.0.2/com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.lambda$runLoop$3(WinApplication.java:184)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.

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BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 4s
15 actionable tasks: 2 executed, 13 up-to-date
c:\Users\John\IdeaProjects\jabref> `

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Going through IntelliJ, gradle fails to build with the following two errors. I did generate the additional src code using gradlew assemble and confirmed that the src-gen folder generated and was populated with files.

C:\Users\John\IdeaProjects\jabref\buildSrc\src\copied\java\org\jabref\logic\journals\JournalAbbreviationLoader.java:45: error: cannot find symbol
                    repository.addCustomAbbreviations(readJournalListFromFile(Path.of(filename)));
                                                                                  ^
  symbol:   method of(java.lang.String)
  location: interface java.nio.file.Path


C:\Users\John\IdeaProjects\jabref\buildSrc\src\copied\java\org\jabref\logic\journals\JournalAbbreviationRepository.java:89: error: cannot find symbol
                       .or(() -> Optional.ofNullable(abbreviationToFull.get(journal)).map(fullName -> new Abbreviation(fullName, journal)));
                       ^
  symbol:   method or(()->Option[...]nal)))
  location: class java.util.Optional<org.jabref.logic.journals.Abbreviation>
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@John-Poulos Thanks for your interest. You hit a bug that was fixed last night.
You need to resync/update your fork.

Otherwise as a workaround create a folder called “JabRef” in Your “Documents” user folder.

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Many thanks, the error seemed to be my misunderstanding of GitHub desktop! I was on my own branch and didn’t realize that it had not updated. I am very glad that it was resolved and was not an issue with my environment! Thank you again :slight_smile:

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