Windows BSOD while trying to delete/move folder from a OneDrive Files On-Demand folder.

[cjavad]

I've been having an issue with managing pnpm node_modules folders inside a onedrive directory which previously has worked fine with npm. The gist of it is that when trying to delete/move a node_modules folder from said type of directory my windows computer will blue screen, this has happened 7 times so far so i am quite confident that its this combination that causes it.

When trying to remove a pnpm node_modules folder outside of the ondrive folder it behaves as one would expect. This might be an issue with how OneDrive works, but i thought i would report it here anyhow.

pnpm version: 5.4.12

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Install node_modules with pnpm in a "OneDrive Files On-Demand for Windows 10" folder
2. Try to move/delete the entire folder
3. :)

Expected behavior:

The action would remove the folder from that location.

Actual behavior:

The explorer popup shows it's trying to remove the folder/files then subsequently blue screens.

Additional information:

• BSOD Stop code: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
• node -v prints: 14.7.0
• Windows, OS X, or Linux?: Windows

[cjavad]

As a side note, when using WSL with ubuntu, i can remove the node_modules files just fine with rm -rf with no issues at all. This only happens when trying to use the file explorer, cmd or powershell.

[zkochan]

I guess this happens because pnpm creates hard links inside node_modules.

You can force pnpm to use copying instead, by setting the package-import-method setting to copy.

[cjavad]

Interestingly enough, when setting the copy directive installing single packages via pnpm seems to not create any issues. But when I tried pnpm install on a package.json from a react project then tried to delete the folder from onedrive (after a while has passed) the same issue occurs.

Might have something to do with onedrive removing the files locally when backing up.

Either way I think the obvious solution would be not to combine onedrive on demand with pnpm

[zkochan]

is it possible to tell one drive to ignore node_modules?

[cjavad]

You can create an empty folder called node_modules, then unselect it in Onedrive's folder selector. This doesn't apply to Onedrive configured to sync and serve on demand (when file operations are performed)

[cjavad]

Another solution is to make the entire node_modules folder a symlink (on windows) which makes it impossible for onedrive to sync any of it, the above solution also leads to constant sync errors from onedrive.

[hinell]

Who ever would want to hoist deps into ... OneDrive folder!

I mean, unless OneDrive's protocol supports hard linking it's the best to avoid pnpm's linking functionality.

[statianzo]

As of pnpm 5.9.0 you could explore using node-linker=pnp and symlink=false in your .npmrc to avoid creating all the links.

https://pnpm.js.org/en/npmrc#node-linker