Cannot Open Folder Suffixed ".Template" on macOS #247974
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bpasero
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Okay, more explicit, a folder with any other text suffixed ".Template", I didn't mean literally the name ".Template" but something like "Project.Api.Template" or "New.App.Template". Suffixed ".Template", not named ".Template". |
bpasero
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I can reproduce in a fiddle, it seems when const { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, dialog } = require('electron');
const path = require('path');
app.whenReady().then(() => {
const win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 600,
height: 400,
webPreferences: {
preload: path.join(__dirname, 'preload.js'),
}
});
win.loadFile('index.html');
ipcMain.handle('select-folder', async () => {
const result = await dialog.showOpenDialog(win, {
properties: [
'openDirectory',
'treatPackageAsDirectory'
]
});
console.log(result);
return result.filePaths[0] || null;
});
});<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Select a Folder</h2>
<button id="selectBtn">Choose Folder</button>
<p id="path"></p>
<script>
document.getElementById('selectBtn').addEventListener('click', async () => {
const folderPath = await window.electronAPI.selectFolder();
document.getElementById('path').textContent = folderPath || 'No folder selected';
});
</script>
</body>
</html>const { contextBridge, ipcRenderer } = require('electron');
contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld('electronAPI', {
selectFolder: () => ipcRenderer.invoke('select-folder')
}); |
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It's tricky to ID at what layer the problem is, whether it's directly in VSCode (seems growingly unlikely), Electron (possibly), or even just a limitation down in Cocoa's file selection dialog. It does seem Apple has a special idea of what ".Template" means at the end of a path whether the file itself is a regular file, directory, whatever else, similar to the ".app" suffix on application packages. In any case, now that I've looked at it a bit more this certainly seems related to that macOS-specific treatment of certain suffixes. Supporting this is another case I tried, I created a directory on my desktop named "test.app" to see what another one of these special directory suffixes would do, and in this case I can't even select the directory, Apple has decided if a path name has ".app" at the end, as a user thou shalt have no choice to open it as a directory: 
Needless to say the root cause is probably this "my terms, not yours" approach by Apple on directories, a clear violation of the UNIX philosophy underlying the XNU/Darwin OS. Anywho, good luck, if nothing else, glad I could raise awareness of the issue. |
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@gilmorem560 but we explicitly set a flag to allow for drilling into |
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Unfortunately that test doesn't, although if I had to wager a guess it's because it's literally just a directory, not a true ".app" as Apple defines it, so Cocoa probably says POSIX definition of a directory be damned, we're going to set the terms, not you. Edit: Just tried another, ".bundle", this one behaves similarly to ".Template" in that it is clickable in the file open dialog, but doesn't do anything. |
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However, this is a bug in Electron since there is an option to allow to treat package apps as directory and it should be respected in this check that regressed this behavior. |
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Addressed in electron/electron#47077 |
Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes
Steps to Reproduce:
When performing these steps, the Open Folder dialog closes but no visible change occurs in the VSCode application, it simply remains on whatever was already open, neither opening the new folder nor giving any sort of feedback that it did not do as requested.
Worth noting, opening said directory by passing it as an argument to "code" on the command-line does work, so the path is a standard UNIX directory listing out a series of files that can be viewed in the file tree in VSCode. For some reason it simply refuses to open if it is suffixed ".Template". This does not appear to happen outside of macOS.
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