What's wrong with my taxonomy links or my taxonomy view and contextual filter? I have a D7 view displaying all items tagged "food" at

mysite.com/industry/term/food


But my taxonomy terms for "industries" link to e.g. mysite.com/industry/food
(i.e. without /term/)

I thought I could update the view to make the page path: /industry/%
instead of: industry/term/%
but that breaks the view

so I thought I might be able to update my Taxonomy url aliasing pattern to be:

[term:vocabulary]/term/[term:name]


instead of [term:vocabulary]/[term:name]
but that doesn't work either :( or at least, it doesn't update all pre-written aliases...

I read this:
http://www.webbykat.com/2012/04/overriding-default-taxonomy-page-view-drupal-7
which pointed to a solution from 2009 here
https://www.drupal.org/node/394062#comment-1953504
but if I use Name or ID (rather than "name converted to ID") in my contextual filter it breaks the view

What am i doing wrong - I'm sure it's something simple and I'm just being blind!?
You mentioned that changing the alias doesn't update all pre-written aliases. Could you pick one term, edit it, and hit "Automatic alias" under URL aliases so that it updates, then post whether that resolved the issue for that individual term?

If so, all you need is to bulk update aliases for that vocabulary, which can be done with a VBO - I'll detail how if that's the issue.