fails with an error "No such file or directory"

when trying to extract all files from an .asar file I’m getting such an error.

asar extract app.asar ./app
fs.js:565
fs.write = function(fd, buffer, offset, length, position, callback) {
                                                 ^
Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory '/Users/maddev/Documents/projects/personal/slack/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/cld-atom-shell/build/Release/cld.node'
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:500:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:352:15)
    at Object.module.exports.readFileSync (/opt/local/lib/node_modules/asar/lib/disk.js:121:19)
    at Object.module.exports.extractAll (/opt/local/lib/node_modules/asar/lib/asar.js:115:24)
    at Command.<anonymous> (/opt/local/lib/node_modules/asar/bin/asar:53:15)
    at Command.listener (/opt/local/lib/node_modules/asar/node_modules/commander/index.js:249:8)
    at Command.emit (events.js:110:17)
    at Command.parseArgs (/opt/local/lib/node_modules/asar/node_modules/commander/index.js:480:12)
    at Command.parse (/opt/local/lib/node_modules/asar/node_modules/commander/index.js:372:21)

what is the problem here? thx

[MarshallOfSound]

This issue is pretty straight forward. Basically lots of apps have an app.asar file but they also have an app.asar.unpacked folder for some files that shouldn’t live in an ASAR. This means that an ASAR file will not extract correctly unless both the app.asar.unpacked and app.asar files are in the same location.

[ashelley]

I just ran into this problem myself… I believe it is because the asar has excluded directories from the .asar package and to successfully unpack it you need to have the ‘app.asar.unpacked’ directory adjacent to the .asar file while extracting.