Error EISDIR

The problem

After creating a nuxt project from npm (npm init nuxt-app), all files are created, and correctly, everything is visible in Visual Studio, but Github Desktop shows me only one file, with the name of the folder, with the error “The file is empty”. After looking at the logs, I found this: Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read.

Release version

3.0.5

Operating system

Windows 10

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Open Github Desktop
2. In Visual Studio Code’s terminal, create a nuxt project with npm in a repository
3. Check your Github Desktop

Log files

2022-08-09T16:24:47.909Z - info: [ui] launching: 3.0.5 (Windows 10.0.19044)
2022-08-09T16:24:47.916Z - info: [ui] execPath: 'C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\app-3.0.5\GitHubDesktop.exe'
2022-08-09T16:24:48.227Z - error: [ui] Could not load new contents for syntax highlighting
Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read

Screenshots

Additional context

Same error if :

• npm init run from cmd
• Github Desktop launched as admin

[steveward]

Thanks for the issue @MathiAs2Pique. We had a previous report of this EISDIR error in https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/11881, and in that case it resolved itself after an updates.

Have you been able to reproduce this after you initially hit the error? I’ll take a look and see if I can trigger the error on a test VM.

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