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Error: `base path` is empty

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When trying to download the latest translations for my crowdin project, I get the following error:

$ crowdin download --identity keys/crowdin.yaml
Building ZIP archive with the latest translations for 'ro' - skipped
Error `base path` is empty

My config file:

"project_identifier": "[redacted]"
"base_path": "."

files: [
  {
    "source": "/electron/locale/strings.js",
    "translation": "/electron/locale/strings-%two_letters_code%.js",
    "update_option": "update_as_unapproved"
  }
]

My environment:

OS: Linux Debian 9.5 stretch
crowdin: v2.0.24
Java: 1.8.0_191

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:27 (9 by maintainers)

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2reactions

joshfriendcommented, Jan 17, 2019

I got the base_path is empty when I had a typo in the filename of my source file, it was super confusing even after I found this issue. JetBrains spellcheck saved my bacon 😬

2reactions

Yserzcommented, Nov 20, 2018

Okay, but the error message is quite misleading I think. I thought base_path is empty means that the configuration is not loaded properly or the value is not set. Instead it really means whatever crowdin is expecting to be the base_path after reading the config is empty (/i18n/ folder).