Angular-CLI ng new: "Error: EPERM: operation not permitted..."

Question

I am trying to use Angular-CLI to install a new Angular2 app, but keep running into the following issue:

ng new payment-calc-app

After "Installing packages for tooling via npm", I get the following Error codes:

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm ERR! path C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\.staging\rxjs-ccea9159
npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! errno -4048
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\.staging\rxjs-ccea9159' -> 'C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\rxjs'
npm ERR!     at destStatted (C:\Users\jweston\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\install\action\finalize.js:29:7)
npm ERR!     at C:\Users\jweston\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:284:29
npm ERR!     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\.staging\rxjs-ccea9159' -> 'C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\rxjs'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  { Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\.staging\rxjs-ccea9159' -> 'C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\rxjs'
npm ERR!     at destStatted (C:\Users\jweston\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\install\action\finalize.js:29:7)
npm ERR!     at C:\Users\jweston\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:284:29
npm ERR!     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\.staging\rxjs-ccea9159' -> 'C:\Users\jweston\Documents\Apps\payment-calc-app\node_modules\rxjs'
npm ERR!     at Error (native) parent: 'payment-calc-app' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\jweston\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-03-23T19_17_36_190Z-debug.log

Package install failed, see above.

I've tried npm clean cache and running Command Prompt as an Administrator (I'm on Windows) to no avail.

Oddly enough, when I go to try to delete the folders that the failed installation created, Windows prevents me from deleting them, saying I need to be an Administrator to delete them, even though I am an administrator. I need to go into each individual folder and delete each individual file one at a time.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and the solution that worked for me is running the IntelliJ as an administrator