Clipping path in PS is not knocking out areas inside paths

Sorry if the thread title is rather oblique but I'm having a little trouble articulating what my issue is.
I'm creating a a clipping path on a photo to place in ID -- I'm knocking out the background and there are areas within the perimeter path that also need to be knocked out (imagine a path around the outside of the letter "O" and a path on the inside of the letter to make it open). I've done on other photos on this same project but for some reason, I can't make it work on this one.
What am I doing wrong? TIA

welcome to the might Photoshop bug since PS 6.0. here is a quick fix short of recreating the path from scratch:
grab your direct select tool (white arrow).
1] click you path in the path so you can see it around the object overlaying the pixels.
2] make sure you have nothing selected as far as points. hold option and click the interior path (the area you want to knock out). ok you should have that area of the path selected.
3] with the path selected, click your Pen tool. look at you tool bar with the path setting - this part of your path needed set to the last one one the far right OR the "exclude overlapping path area" setting.
a lot of times it randomly just occurs as i have seen it off and on for years. sometimes selecting the entire path with the interior paths and setting the whole thing to the far right setting helps as well. sometimes you need to only select area that needs knocked out.

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