vscode - Internal Error: File to read not found or unreadable

[almahdi404]

I am using the watchdog library to watch when a .scss file is closed. Then compile the whole directory, like this

sass.compile(
    dirname("static", "static"),
    output_style="expanded",
)

But when I am editing sass files using vscode, sometimes this error occurs
sass.CompileError: Internal Error: File to read not found or unreadable: E:/projects/blog/core/static/core/style.scss

How can I solve this problem?

[asottile]

can you provide more information? that call doesn't look like our library and perhaps with a stacktrace it would be more apparent?

[almahdi404]

thanks for the reply.

I didn't find this error when I am editing .sass files using notepad on windows.
Clearly vscode is causing the problem. Check these issues microsoft/vscode#15111, microsoft/vscode#28927. This microsoft/vscode#15111 (comment) says that Atomic save is causing this problem.

node-sass also had such unreadable file error issues sass/node-sass#1894, sass/node-sass#1894 with vscode. I don't know If they fixed this problem. But someone made a PR for this bug here sass/node-sass#2386

I think, It should make some retries before raising any error as like that PR did.

[asottile]

sounds like it's on vs code then!