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Local dev environment debugging

The work of finding out why editors, shells, agents and services on one developer machine disagree about which tools are installed and where they live.

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A running Windows process keeps the PATH it inherited at creation

A fresh terminal resolves ffmpeg while the IDE on the same machine says the tool is missing. The difference is the environment block each process got when it was created, and Windows sends no update to a process already running.

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