So I was building a astro page in a project on a Mapped Network Drive (U:) in doing so, I found many errors which I was having alot of trouble fixing (3+hours). I realised after some time it was mapping files to U:\NETWORKMACHINENAME\projdir instead of U:\projdir and it was causing all of my errors, I moved the entire project from U:\ to a local drive D:\ and instantly no issues/errors and everything worked as expected. Is this normal? Should this be a bug?
#Errors when building astro on a Mapped Network Drive
scarlet hazel
tired brook
Windows and network drives or even folders that are synced with OneDrive or other platforms tend to have quite a few weird issues that are not limited to Astro from my experience
scarlet hazel
I DO NOT use Onedrive or anything of that sort, it is a networked drive on a machine in my LAN
tired brook
To be clear, that was simply an example
tired brook
Neither did i when i used to maintain 1000s of windows systems daily 🤣
scarlet hazel
I bet haha
tired brook
But yeah, Windows network drives and running software from them HEAVILY depend on the type of software being designed for that purpose... 😅 there is quite a few .exe files that i ran into in the past that refused to even launch if ran directly from a network share of any sort, even if mounted by group policy 😢
scarlet hazel
hmm... sad 🙁
the thing is it was just a simple one page astro build, couldn't even run dev build
i am new to astro, but still I havn't experienced this on other types of builds
would it matter that it is actually a linux machine running a samba server
i would imagine not... but...
tired brook
I don't have a windows system anymore to test it myself, hopefully another user who might have an idea could try it out...
(Linux would be the last thing to cause a issue with npm/node... 😅 i actually daily linux, and have very few issues with node now compared to my node on windows 🤣 )
More likely something with the way the mount is setup in windows 🤔
scarlet hazel
hmmm...
tired brook
Maybe try converting to a NFS mount with the advanced feature tools? and converting the linux share to NFS as well
That should treat it more like an actual proper shared folder that should always path correctly
scarlet hazel
ok I shall try that. Yeah I have many linux machines these days myself, but still daily drive the windows system due to other programs I need on daily basis.
Again thank you very much for your input, I really appreciate it
one day I will daily drive Linux!
tired brook
yeah, i hear the newer wsl2 + wsg has gotten pretty good... might be worth just running a WSL instance and do a full tie in https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
best of both worlds if you have a system that will actually boot windows?
scarlet hazel
oh god id sooner move to linux lol
tired brook
(yeah my laptop refuses to boot windows, but i dont really mind)
tired brook
Ping me if you ever build the next Winbuntu 😛
scarlet hazel
hahah will do haha
tired brook
(totally serious btw... would love that setup script too)
scarlet hazel
will let you know. Im just happy for your input right now (add me if you like) im down to create what I can, my time is quite limited these days but yeahh...