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JavaScript npm Basics Managing Packages with NPM Installing Packages

Posted by JASON LEE
JASON LEE
17,352 Points

Getting error installing express

@5:15 in the video, while doing the command npm install express@4.15.1 I get the following command line error

npm ERR! code ENOTDIR

npm ERR! syscall mkdir

npm ERR! path G:\My Drive\CODING 101\Treehouse\FullStack_WebDev\kayakApp\node_modules\finalhandler

npm ERR! errno -4052

npm ERR! ENOTDIR: not a directory, mkdir 'G:\My Drive\CODING\101\Treehouse\FullStack_WebDev\kayakApp\node_modules\finalhandler'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

Jason Gilmore
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Jason Gilmore
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Jason Gilmore
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Hi Jason, if you open a terminal and navigate to your kayakapp\node_modules directory, do you see a directory named finalhandler?

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JASON LEE
JASON LEE
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Jason Gilmore

Yes and no. The only directory I had was kayakApp. I tried manually creating the missing directories and re-doing the npm install express@4.15.1 command, it kept giving me subsequent errors. But I found out what the issue was. I'm installing npm modules on my G:\ which is a Google drive connected to the cloud. I have all my programming files on the google cloud drive so I can work from any workstation. But I guess it doesn't work when installing npm modules.... It only works when I'm installing it directly on my local disk i.e. C:.