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Terminal loses the defaultProfile when set to one of Canonical's Ubuntu fragments

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Area-Settings Issue-Bug Priority-1 Product-Terminal Resolution-External
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Description

### Windows Terminal version

1.14.2281.0

### Windows build number

10.0.19043.0

### Other Software

_No response_

### Steps to reproduce

Through this [this reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/xduqci/windows_terminal_preview_116_release/iodjykc/) DHowett urged me to open an issue.

I changed the default profile to my WSL distro and the colorscheme and fontsettings for this profile. I believe installing the latest windows updates broke my profile and reset my settings to default showing [this error](https://imgur.com/e6HEUno). My settings were changed back to default (Powershell as standard profile, WSL profile colorscheme and font settings back to defaults).

I had the same happen on my Windows 11 workstation.

Here is the `settings.json` from my Win10 desktop (I had already fixed my settings)

```json
{
"$help": "https://aka.ms/terminal-documentation",
"$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema",
"actions": [],
"defaultProfile": "{59b72ad2-09f7-55ec-af87-65d062af8472}",
"profiles":
{
"defaults":
{
"bellStyle": "none"
},
"list":
[
{
"bellStyle": "none",
"colorScheme": "Dracula",
"guid": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Windows PowerShell"
},
{
"bellStyle": "none",
"guid": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "cmd"
},
{
"bellStyle": "none",
"guid": "{b453ae62-4e3d-5e58-b989-0a998ec441b8}",
"hidden": true,
"name": "Azure Cloud Shell",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.Azure"
},
{
"guid": "{3984afef-440c-559b-8f33-5fcf304dbdf5}",
"hidden": true,
"name": "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.VisualStudio"
},
{
"guid": "{156e4d1e-3d62-5f80-acb2-5801576d863d}",
"hidden": true,
"name": "Developer PowerShell for VS 2019",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.VisualStudio"
},
{
"guid": "{07b52e3e-de2c-5db4-bd2d-ba144ed6c273}",
"hidden": true,
"name": "Ubuntu-20.04",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl"
},
{
"colorScheme": "One Half Dark",
"font":
{
"size": 10
},
"guid": "{59b72ad2-09f7-55ec-af87-65d062af8472}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS",
"source": "CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu20.04LTS_79rhkp1fndgsc"
}
]
},
"schemes":
[
{
"background": "#0C0C0C",
"black": "#0C0C0C",
"blue": "#0037DA",
"brightBlack": "#767676",
"brightBlue": "#3B78FF",
"brightCyan": "#61D6D6",
"brightGreen": "#16C60C",
"brightPurple": "#B4009E",
"brightRed": "#E74856",
"brightWhite": "#F2F2F2",
"brightYellow": "#F9F1A5",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#3A96DD",
"foreground": "#CCCCCC",
"green": "#13A10E",
"name": "Campbell",
"purple": "#881798",
"red": "#C50F1F",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#CCCCCC",
"yellow": "#C19C00"
},
{
"background": "#012456",
"black": "#0C0C0C",
"blue": "#0037DA",
"brightBlack": "#767676",
"brightBlue": "#3B78FF",
"brightCyan": "#61D6D6",
"brightGreen": "#16C60C",
"brightPurple": "#B4009E",
"brightRed": "#E74856",
"brightWhite": "#F2F2F2",
"brightYellow": "#F9F1A5",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#3A96DD",
"foreground": "#CCCCCC",
"green": "#13A10E",
"name": "Campbell Powershell",
"purple": "#881798",
"red": "#C50F1F",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#CCCCCC",
"yellow": "#C19C00"
},
{
"background": "#282A36",
"black": "#21222C",
"blue": "#BD93F9",
"brightBlack": "#6272A4",
"brightBlue": "#D6ACFF",
"brightCyan": "#A4FFFF",
"brightGreen": "#69FF94",
"brightPurple": "#FF92DF",
"brightRed": "#FF6E6E",
"brightWhite": "#FFFFFF",
"brightYellow": "#FFFFA5",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#8BE9FD",
"foreground": "#F8F8F2",
"green": "#50FA7B",
"name": "Dracula",
"purple": "#FF79C6",
"red": "#FF5555",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#F8F8F2",
"yellow": "#F1FA8C"
},
{
"background": "#282C34",
"black": "#282C34",
"blue": "#61AFEF",
"brightBlack": "#5A6374",
"brightBlue": "#61AFEF",
"brightCyan": "#56B6C2",
"brightGreen": "#98C379",
"brightPurple": "#C678DD",
"brightRed": "#E06C75",
"brightWhite": "#DCDFE4",
"brightYellow": "#E5C07B",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#56B6C2",
"foreground": "#DCDFE4",
"green": "#98C379",
"name": "One Half Dark",
"purple": "#C678DD",
"red": "#E06C75",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#DCDFE4",
"yellow": "#E5C07B"
},
{
"background": "#FAFAFA",
"black": "#383A42",
"blue": "#0184BC",
"brightBlack": "#4F525D",
"brightBlue": "#61AFEF",
"brightCyan": "#56B5C1",
"brightGreen": "#98C379",
"brightPurple": "#C577DD",
"brightRed": "#DF6C75",
"brightWhite": "#FFFFFF",
"brightYellow": "#E4C07A",
"cursorColor": "#4F525D",
"cyan": "#0997B3",
"foreground": "#383A42",
"green": "#50A14F",
"name": "One Half Light",
"purple": "#A626A4",
"red": "#E45649",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#FAFAFA",
"yellow": "#C18301"
},
{
"background": "#002B36",
"black": "#002B36",
"blue": "#268BD2",
"brightBlack": "#073642",
"brightBlue": "#839496",
"brightCyan": "#93A1A1",
"brightGreen": "#586E75",
"brightPurple": "#6C71C4",
"brightRed": "#CB4B16",
"brightWhite": "#FDF6E3",
"brightYellow": "#657B83",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#2AA198",
"foreground": "#839496",
"green": "#859900",
"name": "Solarized Dark",
"purple": "#D33682",
"red": "#DC322F",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#EEE8D5",
"yellow": "#B58900"
},
{
"background": "#FDF6E3",
"black": "#002B36",
"blue": "#268BD2",
"brightBlack": "#073642",
"brightBlue": "#839496",
"brightCyan": "#93A1A1",
"brightGreen": "#586E75",
"brightPurple": "#6C71C4",
"brightRed": "#CB4B16",
"brightWhite": "#FDF6E3",
"brightYellow": "#657B83",
"cursorColor": "#002B36",
"cyan": "#2AA198",
"foreground": "#657B83",
"green": "#859900",
"name": "Solarized Light",
"purple": "#D33682",
"red": "#DC322F",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#EEE8D5",
"yellow": "#B58900"
},
{
"background": "#000000",
"black": "#000000",
"blue": "#3465A4",
"brightBlack": "#555753",
"brightBlue": "#729FCF",
"brightCyan": "#34E2E2",
"brightGreen": "#8AE234",
"brightPurple": "#AD7FA8",
"brightRed": "#EF2929",
"brightWhite": "#EEEEEC",
"brightYellow": "#FCE94F",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#06989A",
"foreground": "#D3D7CF",
"green": "#4E9A06",
"name": "Tango Dark",
"purple": "#75507B",
"red": "#CC0000",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#D3D7CF",
"yellow": "#C4A000"
},
{
"background": "#FFFFFF",
"black": "#000000",
"blue": "#3465A4",
"brightBlack": "#555753",
"brightBlue": "#729FCF",
"brightCyan": "#34E2E2",
"brightGreen": "#8AE234",
"brightPurple": "#AD7FA8",
"brightRed": "#EF2929",
"brightWhite": "#EEEEEC",
"brightYellow": "#FCE94F",
"cursorColor": "#000000",
"cyan": "#06989A",
"foreground": "#555753",
"green": "#4E9A06",
"name": "Tango Light",
"purple": "#75507B",
"red": "#CC0000",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#D3D7CF",
"yellow": "#C4A000"
},
{
"background": "#300A24",
"black": "#171421",
"blue": "#0037DA",
"brightBlack": "#767676",
"brightBlue": "#08458F",
"brightCyan": "#2C9FB3",
"brightGreen": "#26A269",
"brightPurple": "#A347BA",
"brightRed": "#C01C28",
"brightWhite": "#F2F2F2",
"brightYellow": "#A2734C",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#3A96DD",
"foreground": "#FFFFFF",
"green": "#26A269",
"name": "Ubuntu-20.04-ColorScheme",
"purple": "#881798",
"red": "#C21A23",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#CCCCCC",
"yellow": "#A2734C"
},
{
"background": "#000000",
"black": "#000000",
"blue": "#000080",
"brightBlack": "#808080",
"brightBlue": "#0000FF",
"brightCyan": "#00FFFF",
"brightGreen": "#00FF00",
"brightPurple": "#FF00FF",
"brightRed": "#FF0000",
"brightWhite": "#FFFFFF",
"brightYellow": "#FFFF00",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#008080",
"foreground": "#C0C0C0",
"green": "#008000",
"name": "Vintage",
"purple": "#800080",
"red": "#800000",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#C0C0C0",
"yellow": "#808000"
}
]
}
```

### Expected Behavior

After an update I would like my settings to remain the way they were

### Actual Behavior

My terminal settings got reset to defaults showing an error message about the default GUID not matching any of my profile GUIDs.

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