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So basically I forgot my PC account name so I made a new PC account but when i got minecraft again it always crashes. Heres the launcher log

17:03:14launcherPreparing to launch minecraft client for 1.8.917:03:14launcherChecking installations.17:03:14launcherMinecraft client 1.8.9 is ready to start.17:03:14launcherStarting!17:03:15launcherUsing default game log configuration client-1.7.xml (outputs XML)17:03:15launcherException in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<init>(PropertiesUtil.java:71)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<clinit>(PropertiesUtil.java:31)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger.<clinit>(StatusLogger.java:48)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:44)
at ave.<clinit>(SourceFile:145)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:41)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.ProviderUtil.<clinit>(ProviderUtil.java:70)
... 6 more
13:03:15monitorProcess crashed with exit code 1

BTW I did it on 1.8

See http://hopper.minecraft.net/help/special-characters/

Thank you changing the directory worked