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Trying to download a complete folder from the Explorer: "can't open this folder because it contains system files [Choose a different folder]"
See original GitHub issueThis relates to code-server 3.12.0.
When I want to download a file to my local filesystem I right-click on the file in the Explorer and choose “Download…” – works fine… downloads right away to the Downloads folder on my local drive (without any prompt for where to save… which is fine).
But when I right-click on a folder to download the entire folder, I get the following message:
… where the redacted part is just the domain on which code-server instance is hosted e.g. codeserver.mydomain.com.
And no, the folder does not contain system files… not sure whether it’s referring to the remote folder or local folder, but either way there are no system files.
I’m not even sure it’s possible to download an entire folder in code-server / VSCode? I sure hope it is possible, and it feels like it’s trying to do the download (not just saying it’s not possible to download folders). Certainly on Cloud9 it is/was possible to download either a file or folder in this way, direct from the Explorer… for a folder it is just zipped and downloaded the folder as a zip (or maybe gz… either way is fine).
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I’m seeing the same problem. Following the instructions at here, on a Mac (Monterey 12.4). Tried various likely places to download to, starting with
~/Downloads, the default~/Documents, and~/Desktop. (BTW,Downloadspermission should be in place: it is in system prefs > Security & Privacy > Files and Folders, as Google Chrome.app (checkmark) Downloads Folder. I’m loathe to give Chrome “Full Disk Access” which is unchecked.)UPDATE: what finally worked was choosing
/tmp(which is actually/private/tmp), with a couple of warnings along the lines of “github.dev will be able to read files until it’s restarted”.(At this point, my question is, what is this
github.devthing? Maybe that’s what I need to be giving permissions to? It’s not a real application though…)Thanks
Screen shot below: I right-clicked on
pyqldbsamples> Download…I’m still seeing this (and being slightly frustrated by this) several times a day, so it would be great it this issue wasn’t marked as stale!