Missing .css file after fresh install

[jfb-h]

Bug description

On a fresh install on Windows 10, I run into the following error when doing quarto check (or when trying to preview):

ERROR: NotFound: The system cannot find the file specified. (os error 2), remove 'C:\Users\Jakob\AppData\Local\quarto\sass\397ef2e52d54cf686e4908b90039e9db.css'

This seems to be the same error reported here and occurred both via the 1.2.313 MSI downloaded from the website as well as with an installation via winget, which seems to be a slightly older version.

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[dragonstyle]

Is there anything unusual about the environment / directory or the machine configuration? I've attempted to reproduce it locally, but I can't cause an error either using the Dev version or using the installed version. Any help reproducing would be appreciated!

[jfb-h]

Hm not that I know of, it is a regular Windows 10 system and I have access rights etc. Do you have any pointers on what to check, specifically?

[dragonstyle]

It's a long shot, but was wondering whether the paths referenced are perhaps hosted using an unusual file system or perhaps using a file synchornizing technology like Google Drive (we have some low level issues with file enumeration in these cases that we're still chasing down).

[jfb-h]

I copied the files in the referenced folder over from another system which didn't have any issues and now it works. Here are the missing files:

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----        01.01.2023     13:57         248080 397ef2e52d54cf686e4908b90039e9db.css
-a----        01.01.2023     13:57          66371 397ef2e52d54cf686e4908b90039e9db.css.map
-a----        09.09.2022     08:52           2501 debc5d5d77c3f9108843748ff7464032.css
-a----        09.09.2022     08:52            748 debc5d5d77c3f9108843748ff7464032.css.map
-a----        01.01.2023     13:57            240 index.json

[bsureshkrishna]

Same problem. Also with the earlier version of Quarto. Everything was working before ! I dont know what the Quarto version was, though.

No idea where I Can find these missing files

[dragonstyle]

Can you try cleaning that directory and remove all the css and json files? That is a cAche and it seems like we are likely pointing to a file in the index that doesn't exist in disk for some reason. I'm not sure how that would happen though...

[bsureshkrishna]

I reset my Windows and did a clean install, and the problem disappeared. Also the RStudio problem with crashing on "pick your R version" that others have reported also disappeared.

[dragonstyle]

Since we don’t have a good repro for this one, I’m going to close this for now…

[jhconning]

Sorry to see this issue closed.. I've faced the same problem on one Windows computer for months. Tried re-installing and suggestions here to no avail.

Is there some guidance on 'deep uninstalling' quarto, to try to get past this. Or maybe it's something about my environment?

quarto check

[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.2.335
      Path: C:\Users\jconn\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\bin
      CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

ERROR: NotFound: The system cannot find the file specified. (os error 2), remove 'C:\Users\jconn\AppData\Local\quarto\sass\397ef2e52d54cf686e4908b90039e9db.css'

update: For a thread on the several things I've tried already (with help from posit/quarto developers) see here

more info: possibly relevant (as this was asked above), I do use google drive file stream on my machine (quarto and the windows system are installed to the c:\ while the google drive files are mapped to an h:\ drive, so I don't think there should eb a problem).

[dragonstyle]

This is some kind of issue with our cache of compiled scss, though I still don't understand the root cause. That said, I think I understand this error itself (we are trying to recover from some other error and that recovery is itself failing!)- I am going to put something into address this and perhaps this will uncover some deeper issue.

I'll start a fresh pre-release build that should be ready in 10-15 minutes with the change to address the recovery error...