[MCL-26405] Minecraft launcher says, "Oops, an unexpected error occurred."

When I open the launcher to access the content, after a while it says something happened. I've already restarted the PC, formatted the hard drive, and it still won't open.

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MCL-26206 launcher is not working. keeps sending error message saying 'an unexpected error occured; we are sorry for the inconvenience. Please try restarting your launcher. if that does not resolve the issue, please log a bug report' Reopened

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Donuts1000 2026-01-29T17:39:10Z

Can you please provide us with minecraft launcher logs?

From this location on your PC: %appdata%\.minecraft

[MCQA] Blawik 2026-02-03T13:31:12Z

Hi!
Thank you for your report!

We're already tracking this issue at MCL-26206, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a Duplicate.

I suggest also to browse through the main issue for potential fixes.

If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main ticket it would be appreciated.

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