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[Bug]: EACCES: permission denied

See original GitHub issue

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

Command ‘Reload Vibrancy’ resulted in an error (A system error occurred (EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vscode-vibrancy-runtime-v6’))

Expected Behavior

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Steps To Reproduce

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Environment

- OS:
- VSCode:
- Extension:

Anything else?

I have VSCode in my applications folder.

Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:11 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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illixioncommented, Nov 4, 2022

Seems like your VSCode was installed by another user, so your user account doesn’t have permissions to modify it. To solve this, go to /Applications, find Visual Studio Code.app, right click → Get Info, and make sure that your account has Read & write permissions in the Sharing & Permissions section.

Edit: my previous solution doesn’t solve the issue fully, running sudo chown -R $(whoami):staff "/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/" in a terminal should fix this.

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illixioncommented, Nov 7, 2022

@illixion

Unfortunately, the command you gave does not run on my M1 machine. What am I doing wrong?

In addition, all the other steps you asked for did not work either.

The command in your screenshot is different from the one I’ve provided, you need to copy and paste it exactly as it appears in my comment. Also, make sure that you’re not using smart quotes in your commands. As long as you copy directly from your web browser into the Terminal, you should be fine.