[HELP] Trying to init a shadcn/ui project, but it keeps trying to access a random folder and fails.

[mmmmaaaaarrrrrrkkkkkkkk]

I don't see what I'm doing wrong. I open CMD as Administrator in the folder C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\project, and then I run npx shadcn@latest init.

The process goes smoothly, until it asks for my base color choice. After selecting a color, it immediately fails because it's trying to access C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\My Music which is a completely random and nonexistent folder and it's outside of the directory I'm running from.

Here's a copy-paste from the command line if that helps any:

C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\project>npx shadcn@latest init
√ The path C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\project does not contain a package.json file.
  Would you like to start a new project? » Next.js
√ What is your project named? ... project
√ Creating a new Next.js project.
√ Which color would you like to use as the base color? » Zinc
√ Writing components.json.

Something went wrong. Please check the error below for more details.
If the problem persists, please open an issue on GitHub.

EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir 'C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\My Music'

Thanks in advance!

[mmmmaaaaarrrrrrkkkkkkkk]

It looks like the My Music folder DOES exist, it's just one of those absolutely wonderful hidden OneDrive folders. It doesn't even show when you tick on "Show hidden files". I had to delete the My Music folder, as well as any other "My" folders via the command line.

I retried the installation, and everything worked fine. I hate Windows...

At least this is here for anyone running into the same problem.

[joshpachner]

Yeah Windows is weird.
Randomly I started to get this error.
I resolved it by just putting my project within another folder. So that it wasnt C:\users\me\Documents\project
but instead
C:\users\me\Documnets\nested_folder\project

[rif-enriquez]

worked for me too

[mattnovelli]

worked for me! thanks

[rif-enriquez]

this is actually crazy.. why is the init command looking for access anywhere outside its current directory at all?

[johnzenith]

It's not actually accessing anywhere outside, it's related with the installation package in node_modules folder. I don't want to say deadlock situation, but it looks more like it. If you close everywhere where that folder is opened, and run the installation again it should work fine.

[johnzenith]

On windows, this may happen. It is related with the running process (it's just like, hey, this folder/program is currently being used by a running process).

So close the folder, your coding editor and terminal where that path is accessed.
Open a new terminal and re-run the installation command, it should fix it.

[luchillo17]

I'm working within WSL2 with Ubuntu 22.04, I went as far as shutting down WSL in power shell, restarting a single zsh instance and trying to install, still giving me an error...

[johnzenith]

When I ran a few tests on this, using npm always works. Again, if you look at the error code: EACCES, it shows that somehow pnpm could not access the node_modules folder and make modifications as needed.

Try npm, it should work.

But I see you're using pnpm: Try restarting your device, don't open anything yet, just go straight to your terminal and navigate to the folder you want to run the install on and put the command, it should work.

[luchillo17]

Nope, not working, I've tried all but Bun.

[mmmmaaaaarrrrrrkkkkkkkk]

Reopened because this seems to still be helpful

[Cymilly]

i tried closing all opened project and it work for me

[maicss]

OS: Windows 11
Shell: PowerShell 7.5.4

First time:

bunx --bun shadcn@latest create --preset "https://ui.shadcn.com/init?base=radix&style=nova&baseColor=neutral&theme=neutral&iconLibrary=lucide&font=inter&menuAccent=subtle&menuColor=default&radius=default&template=next" --template next
√ What is your project named? ... my-app
✔ Creating a new Next.js project.
✔ Writing components.json.


Something went wrong. Please check the error below for more details.
If the problem persists, please open an issue on GitHub.

EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir 'C:/Users/Administrator/Application Data'

Second time:

bunx --bun shadcn@latest create --preset "https://ui.shadcn.com/init?base=radix&style=nova&baseColor=neutral&theme=neutral&iconLibrary=lucide&font=inter&menuAccent=subtle&menuColor=default&radius=default&template=next" --template next
√ What is your project named? ... my-app
✔ Creating a new Next.js project.
✔ Writing components.json.


Something went wrong. Please check the error below for more details.
If the problem persists, please open an issue on GitHub.

EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir 'C:/Users/Administrator/Cookies'