SSH is looking in the wrong place for the public/private key pair on Windows

Question

I\'m trying to configure GIT on my Windows XP machine, but SSH keeps creating and looking for the public/private key pair in non-sensical places, e.g. /.ssh/id_rsa

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Answer 1

Check which ssh to see if you are using /usr/bin/ssh or something else, that might have installed by accident.

In my case my ssh was replaced by Chocolatey after installing rsync. After running choco uninstall rsync, my SSH was working again.