elfinder: Unable to open '#' Folder not found.

When opening the elfinder, i am getting the following error in JS console: elfinder debug: [error] [elfinder] Unable to open "#".<br>Folder not found.

I am using the following disk: 'uploads' => [ 'driver' => 'local', 'root' => public_path('uploads'), ],

Somehow an empty string is given as folder, therefore the ‘#…’, any ideas?

[kagagnon]

Hi,

I had the same problem and after searching for a while, I’ve successfully tracked the problem.

On the line 3457 of elfinder.full.js, the is an event bound on the window called message which call an additional request. When calling a new request, it aborts current requests of type open.

Now, the problem was one of my extension installed on Chrome, Grammarly in my case. That extension was triggering message on page load, aborting the initial request of elFinder. When it was doing the .sync, the target param sent in get was empty, causing the error.

From what other users are saying, they might have the same problem. Elfinder works on other browsers since they probably have no extensions.

Now, the fix was easy, disabling the extension solved everything, but it is not practical. In the end, the problem is not with CRUD, nor Laravel-Elfinder, it is in elFinder itself. I’m relatively new to Github, so if someone could reference this issue to elFinder (or even better teach me), it would be nice!

The question to elFinder authors is: Would using a prefix for the event instead of a namespace be possible? It would solve that problem at least.

[tabacitu]

@kagagnon thanks a lot for sharing your findings. It makes a lot of sense now - for it to be a Chrome extension 😃

Here’s the elFinder repository - https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder

Cheers!