I've been a long time user of notepad++ and I enjoy it a lot, but a friend recently recommended me to use Atom, so I gave it a try. However, when I try to save anything in my project folder (or any file at all), I receive this message that I am unable to save file: permission denied.
I've tried typing the command sudo atom /path/to/file in my PowerShell for Windows, but I get the following message:
I understand that sudo is a Linux-based command and thus would not work in a Windows environment but would there be an alternative route to get Atom working on my machine?
Thanks a lot!
The files were made "Read Only" somehow (maybe your anti-virus software or something, who knows...).
Solution:
Go to the folder in the Explorer, highlight all of the files in your project. Right click, open the properties. Deselect "Read-Only" and push ok. When it asks if you would like to apply to only the selected files or also to the files in any sub-folders, click yes if you need to.
This should fix your problem.
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I have tried to google, this can't find anything or on here so suspect i'm being a noob, so perhaps someone can educate me.
I am copying a file from one directory within by repo in VScode to another. It is a MAKEFILE (which i'm not that familiar with anyway).
I then select copy...
And then i select a sub directory within same directory so i can paste
Once i complete this, rather than the file being copied, it creates a syslink to the file which isn't what i want as i now need to modify the file...
Even if i create the file as a new file, this will still display as a symlink.
Am i doing something stupid here?
I have created the file through the command line but the file still shows as a symlink.
Driving me crazy, please help!
thanks :)
I found the solution here, just complete these steps:
Open VSCode and press Command+Shift+p
Type Uninstall and select option "Uninstall code command from PATH"
Input admin password and then close VSCode once it confirms its been removed
Close VScode application
Re-open VScode and press Command+Shift+p
Type "Install code command to PATH"
Input admin password
Try now and this should work.
I found if i didnt close VScode after removing/adding command to PATH, the setting was lost.
Hope this helps.
I downloaded visual studio code a while ago but was never able to open it. When I open the app, I get the error "unable to write program user data". When I run as administrator, a window opens briefly before closing again. When I try to uninstall the program, I get error 5, "unable to create a temporary file. Setup aborted."
I have tried to create new TEMP and TMP directories but it made no difference.
This is on windows 11, the x64 bit version of vscode.
I have installed and used the same version of Visual Studio Code on a previous device (with windows 10 however) and never had any issues.
If you are not allowed to write data.
It means you do not have the necessary permissions for the directories. I see you tried already to run as ADM.
Try to check if your user account got the necessary permissions to write in the directories that you want. In the error message, maybe it shows the directory in question, if not, try first the VSC directories or the PROJECT directory. See below:
To do this, navigate to the directories specified (Or project directory) in the error message and right-click on them. Select "Properties" and then go to the "Security" tab. Make sure that your user account is listed and has the "Full control" permission.
You can also try to reset the settings for VSCode, by running the command Code --reset-settings in the command prompt.
I want to have neovim. I installed it with choco install neovim in the PowerShell (admin). Then I followed a lot of tutorials, like the one of theprimeagen, but I can't get pass the first steps. Maybe is because I don't have Linux, as everybody does, but I don't think is that.
I created a folder like so: C:/users/myusername/.config/nvim. Then, in this folder I type nvim . to open the Explorer of neovim and start creating the .lua files. The problem is that I always get a stupid .nvimlog every time I enter neovim, I think is the reason why I can't install plugins correctly or remap some keys.
In the .nvimlog every time I enter neovim appears a new line that says:
ERR 2023-02-12T12:55:04.800 nvim.15716.0 terminfo_start 374: uv_tty_set_mode failed: invalid argument. And I swear I followed every tutorial in the exact way, and even without creating any file the .nvimlog is always there.
In windows, the default config directory is ~/AppData/Local, based on their official documentation. I don't know if there is a way to change that, but that is how i configured it.
To find out where your config directory is you can also use :echo stdpath('config').
I have a very annoying problem in my VScode setup.
I'm using WSL as a terminal to work on my projects and occasionally, mistype the name of one of the folder or file that I'm working with.
For example:
I accidentally created the Mainheader.js file in layout folder (without the capitalized L) therefore, I decided to rename the folder with a capital L.
Now on my React app, any changes made to MainHeader.js file will not be reflected. I did update the related import.
So I decided to delete the entire folder and recreate it with MainHeader.js but this is what I end up with.
The file is there in my folder but when I click on it, I get
"Unable to open Mainheader.js - File not found"
So I try to create it then I get this error:
Unable to create file 'wsl\path]to\MainHeader.js' that already exists when overwrite flag is not set
Has anyone run into this type of behavior in WSL before? It's quite annoying because the only workaround I've found so far is to create a completely different folder with a different name...
Any help would be appreciated. I can't really work like this.
I've been having the same problem for the past 2 days. I presume its a permissions issue, but unfortunately I don't know how to permanently fix it.
I did find this work-around though:
Open a new VS Code window. (I'd recommend closing any VS Code window that had
your project directory open.)
Create a duplicate or copy the contents of the problem file so you don't lose
your code.
Delete the problem file.
Now create the file again using VS Code. Go to File > New Text File. Next paste
in your code.
Now save your new file. Go to File > Save As and save your new file with at the same path + filename + extension that was giving you problems previously. VS Code should allow you to save the new file without any issue.
Now you can open this new VS Code window to your project directory and you should be able to continuing accessing the file that was a problem before.
Basically we just deleted the problem file and then created it again from scratch in a new VS Code window.
Hope this work-around works for you!
EDIT 09/20/2022
Following Baza86's answer here solved the issue for me. Seems like it was a permissions issue of sorts, but if you use the Remote-WSL extension VS code can directly access the linux filesystem.
How to run VScode in sudo mode in WSL2?
You may need add the case option to you options in the wsl config. The default is set to off, however you can set this to off, dir or force.
Open your wsl.conf using sudo with any text editor while running window subsystem Linux. The config file resides in /etc/wsl.conf. This file is used to configure settings per-distribution for Linux distros running on WSL 1 or WSL 2.
My default config looked like this yours may be different:
[automount]
options = "metadata"
add
[automount]
options = "metadata,case=dir"
Here is the official Microsoft docs for Advanced settings configuration in WSL - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config
So here is an interesting error...there is a particular folder on my desktop (hdrive, connected to a university-wide backup system, was set up automatically by IT) where emacs has difficulty opening files. In some directories within hdrive emacs can't open files above the current directory. For example,
cd ~/hdrive/directory/
emacs ../another_directory/file
gives the error message
emacs: `get_current_dir_name' failed: No such file or directory
I get the same error if instead I try
emacs ~/hdrive/another_directory/file
The files themselves are not missing and not corrupted, as using cat in place of emacs in these commands works fine. And I don't get this problem with all directories in hdrive - sometimes even a directory with this problem will have a subdirectory without it - but the directories with this problem are consistent.
There is no .dir-locals.el anywhere in hdrive, so that can't be messing things up.
Any ideas?
For me, this problem occurred because I was standing in a folder that I had deleted and recreated in another terminal (git issue).
Navigating away from the folder and back again made emacs and/or the terminal understand which folder I was actually in, and I could start emacs again with no problems.
I doubt this will solve the specific issue the questioner had, but anyone else ending up on this page through a google search on the error message might find my answer useful.