Weird error

Today I wanted to change something in my electron application. After i did my changes I tried packing but got an error. The last time it runs successfuly. I’ve used the same node (v6.3.1) an npm version (3.10.3).

` ✔ Checking your system

✔ Resolving Forge Config

We need to package your application before we can make it

⠇ Preparing to Package Application for arch: x64

An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge: Cannot copy ‘/Users/dknaack/Development/myApplication’ to a subdirectory of itself, ‘/Users/dknaack/Development/myApplication/out/MYAPP-darwin-x64/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/app’. Error: Cannot copy ‘/Users/dknaack/Development/myApplication’ to a subdirectory of itself, ‘/Users/dknaack/Development/myApplication/out/MYAPP-darwin-x64/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/app’. at checkDest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/electron-packager/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/copy/copy.js:141:19) at fs.readlink (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/electron-packager/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/copy/copy.js:239:41) at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15) `

Any ideas?

Thank you!

[MarshallOfSound]

If you aren’t using a tmpdir you need to ensure you don’t have recursive symlinks or something weird like that. The FS will not allow you to copy dir A if it contains a symlink B to A inside of A itself 🤔 i have no idea if that made sense

Basically when packaging you probably shouldn’t be using symlinks it’s just gonna make things complicated.

[Knaackee]

@malept

removing “tmpdir” did the trick.

Thank You!