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Stuck at Preparing to download

See original GitHub issue

I’ve asked for help in the Truffle Gitter before filing this issue.

I did, but didn’t get an immediate response and I’m moving on for now and didn’t want the question lost.

Issue

Attempting to truffle init on Windows in Powershell prompt stalls indefinitely on Preparing to download.

Steps to Reproduce

mkdir truffle
cd truffle
npm install truffle
npx truffle init

Expected Behavior

Truffle to initialize the directory.

Actual Results

This directory is non-empty...
? Proceed anyway? Yes
- Preparing to download

Environment

Operating System: Windows 10
terminal: Powershell
Ethereum client: N/A
Truffle version (truffle version): v5.0.15
node version (node --version): v10.15.0
npm version (npm --version): 6.4.1

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:43 (25 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

aabylaycommented, Jul 5, 2019

Got same issue. That worked for me:

truffle init --force

2reactions

zaidmo123commented, May 21, 2019

I had the same error three times this evening.

To resolve, I navigated to the directory (my project folder) where I was running truffle init from. Deleted all the files, then tried running truffle init in that folder again.

It works.