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elapt1c opened this issue May 21, 2025 · 1 comment
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codeserver complaining that a directory is a directory #7352

elapt1c opened this issue May 21, 2025 · 1 comment
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elapt1c commented May 21, 2025

Is there an existing issue for this?

  • I have searched the existing issues

OS/Web Information

  • Web Browser: any will have same issue
  • Local OS: any (but currently ubuntu)
  • Remote OS: zorin os 17
  • Remote Architecture: intel x86
  • code-server --version: i cannot run that command currently but it is super recent

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im clicking on open folder and it freaks out because the folder i am trying to open is a folder? this used to work just fine a week ago

Steps to Reproduce

  1. open code server on browser
  2. try to open a folder using the open folder button
  3. doesnt open and get an error complaining that the folder is a folder

Expected

it should have just simply opened the folder and worked like it used to

Actual

it throws an error and doesnt open a folder.

Logs

unable to run it with commands currently since it is headless

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2025-05-21.13-21-47.mp4

Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

No, this works as expected in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

I did not test GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?

  • I am using a secure context.

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code-asher commented May 22, 2025 •
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I think the problem is that you launched code-server with ?workspace=/root/code-server. A "workspace" in VS Code parlance is a file that contains a list of folders. So, it tries to add that directory to the /root/code-server workspace file, but it is a directory not a file. You could try instead something like ?workspace=/root/code-server/project.code-workspace or something like that (.code-workspace is the file ending VS Code usually uses), or remove ?workspace and create the workspace from code-server's menu instead.

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