Could not see any files in the explorer...

[miketaochina]

Dear:

I have set up everything for code-server, and opened it in safari, but it could not show any files in the explorer.

I checked the code-server.log, it showed:

[node.js fs] readdir with filetypes failed with error:  [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir '/Users/name/Desktop/mitStudy/Courses/Network Security/python_courses/Personal'] {
  errno: -1,
  code: 'EPERM',
  syscall: 'scandir',
  path: '/Users/name/Desktop/mit/Study/Courses/Network Security/python_courses/Personal'
}

anyone can help please? thanks.

Best regards
Mike

[jsjoeio]

Hmm...it looks like it wasn't able to read your directories due to permissions? Where is code-server running and how did you install it?

[code-asher]

You don't need to escape the space, the quote marks in the ls command handle it for you!

This is strange though. It looks like you have permissions to the directory. Are you able to create files from the terminal there? For example:

cd "/Users/mike/Desktop/MT/Study/Courses/Network Security/python_courses/Personal"
touch test

If that works, try:

code-server "/Users/mike/Desktop/MT/Study/Courses/Network Security/python_courses/Personal"

[miketaochina]

Dear:

Are you able to create files from the terminal there?

I have tried: cd "/Users/mike/Desktop/MT/Study/Courses/Network Security/python_courses/Personal" touch test and it showed me nothing, but when I go to Mac finder, I can see that the files are created.

Then I have tried: code-server "/Users/mike/Desktop/MT/Study/Courses/Network Security/python_courses/Personal", it showed me:

(base) YEMBP:Personal mike$ code-server "/Users/mike/Desktop/MT/Study/Courses/Network Security/python_courses/Personal"
[2021-06-21T19:20:43.657Z] info  code-server 3.10.2 387b12ef4ca404ffd39d84834e1f0776e9e3c005
[2021-06-21T19:20:43.658Z] info  Using user-data-dir ~/.local/share/code-server
[2021-06-21T19:20:43.669Z] info  Using config file ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
[2021-06-21T19:20:43.669Z] info  HTTP server listening on http://192.168.1.175:8080 
[2021-06-21T19:20:43.669Z] info    - Authentication is enabled
[2021-06-21T19:20:43.669Z] info      - Using password from ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
[2021-06-21T19:20:43.669Z] info    - Not serving HTTPS 
[IPC Library: Pty Host]  INFO Persistent process "2": Replaying 219 chars and 1 size events

And suddenly the code-server works, I can see and edit the files and folders from `code-server web`. And one more question here, how I can run the code I write from `code-server web`? For example: the hello.py in the path: `"/Users/mike/Desktop/MT/Study/Courses/Network Security/python_courses/1DV501/1DV501/yt222ar_assign1/hello.py"`

Many thanks,
Best regards,

Mike

[jsjoeio]

And one more question here, how I can run the code I write from code-server web?

You should be able to open that folder in code-server, open the Integrated Terminal and then run python hello.py

[miketaochina]

Dear:

open that folder in code-server

I have done this and tried both python hello.py and python3 hello.py, but none of them worked, they showed: can't open file 'hello.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory.

And unfortunately when I writing the message, code-server web stoped working again(could not see anything again), so I tried above thing in vscode locally.
So I am think to escape the space from Network Security, make it into Network_Security. Should I change it in macOS files system or change it in VScode?
Many thanks,
Best regards,

Mike

[jsjoeio]

have done this and tried both

From the screenshot it looks like you're Terminal is in a different folder than hello.py is in? Which is why that wouldn't work. You need to cd into that folder. Looks like from the file explorer you're in yt222ar_assign1 but the terminal is in Courses? Hard to tell.

Inside terminal, run pwd to see the working directory. If it shows yt222ar_assign1 then you are in the right place and can run python hello.py. If it isn't, then you need to cd into that directory and then you can run python hello.py.

Should I change it in macOS files system or change it in VScode

Either works! I would use whatever you're more comfortable with!