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"FME" not recognized at command prompt

  • May 16, 2017
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Hello,

I've just installed FME on several workstations successfully, however, on one machine, I am unable to run FME from the command line. It just says FME is not recognized and an internal or external command... It seems part of the installation maybe did not complete correctly. How can I get windows to recognize FME as a program from the command line? Thanks!

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erik_jan
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  • May 16, 2017

Have you tried supplying the complete path to the FME.exe?

Maybe on that machine FME was not added to the PATH environment setting and therefor can not be found.


david_r
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  • May 16, 2017

I agree with @erik_jan about the PATH. If you don't know how, have a look here:

https://www.howtogeek.com/118594/how-to-edit-your-system-path-for-easy-command-line-access/


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  • May 16, 2017

I can give that a try. There is definitely no FME entry in the environmental variables on the machine that is not working, however, I wasn't sure that was the issue, as there is no entry on my machine either, and it works fine. I will manually add an entry though, and see if that catches it.


david_r
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  • May 16, 2017

If you type "path" and press enter on the command line, there should be a reference to the FME installation directory. If it isn't you'll have to add that directory to the path manually.

You may sometimes have to reboot your pc after for everything to pick up the path changes.


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  • May 16, 2017

I've manually added the path to FME to the environmental variables on the machine with issues, and everything is now working. Thanks for your help.


freddy17
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  • May 10, 2023

I agree with @erik_jan about the PATH. If you don't know how, have a look here:

https://www.howtogeek.com/118594/how-to-edit-your-system-path-for-easy-command-line-access/

Thanks this article was very useful