MacOs: Fail to delete `.asar` files.

Attempting to use del to remove .app files of electron apps fails with ENOTEMPTY for .asar files only.

Currently I’m working around this manually invoking rm on mac for those files prior to a full del on the target app file. I assume it’s something to do with .asar files being treated somewhat as folder on Mac?

(I havent tested the behaviour on other platforms as yet).

[pascalbayer]

After writing the lines above I was able to find the solution in the electron docs which state that With special patches in Electron, Node APIs like fs.readFile and require treat asar archives as virtual directories, and the files in it as normal files in the filesystem. However, there is also a section in the docs explaining how to disable this special treatment of asar files: Treating an asar Archive as a Normal File.

I was able to get everything working with the following lines:

process.noAsar = true;
await del(pathToExecutable, {
    force: true
});
process.noAsar = false;

[rahul-dutt-sharma]

life saver!