NPM: ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename

Question

I was using gulp on the project, then i decide to deleted all the dev dependencies to switch to webpack, but every time i try to install using npm is get this error:

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'C:\Users\MiguelFrias\Desktop\Therabytes\node_modules\.staging\fsevents-e80c4ef4\node_modules\are-we-there-yet' -> 'C:\Users\MiguelFrias\Desktop\Therabytes\node_modules\.staging\are-we-there-yet-5db4c798'  npm ERR! path C:\Users\MiguelFrias\Desktop\Therabytes\node_modules\acorn npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! errno -4058 npm ERR! syscall rename npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 'C:\Users\MiguelFrias\Desktop\Therabytes\node_modules\acorn' -> 'C:\Users\MiguelFrias\Desktop\Therabytes\node_modules\.acorn.DELETE' npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file. npm ERR! enoent  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR!     C:\Users\MiguelFrias\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-04-04T11_54_23_587Z-debug.log 

any idea what can be happening.

Answer 1

just delete package-lock.json file and then install packages, that's all you need and should be works

rm package-lock.json && npm i 

Answer 2

When I got this error I looked for all running instances of node in my task manager (i use process explorer on windows) and close/kill all running instances of node. For me its often webstorm or vs code. After closing these programs and ensuring there is no running node process npm install works again.