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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon webosbrew

Failed to add device Error invoking remote method

Open sivan-koren opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Describe the bug When attempting to add a device the following error appears: Failed to add device Error invoking remote method 'device-manager/addDevice': Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming.webos\ose\novacom-devices.json

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Download portable exe on Windows 11
  2. Double click it
  3. Click Add device
  4. Enter relevant information in the new window
  5. Click Add
  6. See error

Expected behavior The device should be added.

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Additional context

  • OS: Windows 11

Add any other context about the problem here. Confirmed the .json file has been created, suggesting this is not related to file permissions. Also tried running as Administrator and got the same issue.

sivan-koren avatar Jun 16 '22 19:06 sivan-koren

I had a similar issue, turns out that novacom-devices.json is set to read-only in the file properties. Try disabling that.

CANicholson avatar Jun 16 '22 19:06 CANicholson

I had a similar issue, turns out that novacom-devices.json is set to read-only in the file properties. Try disabling that.

Thank you!

sivan-koren avatar Jun 16 '22 19:06 sivan-koren

similar issue here, on W11 I had to downgrade to the version 1.5.2 and it works

donluca87 avatar Jun 21 '22 13:06 donluca87

Closing as recent updates should fix this issue.

mariotaku avatar Feb 06 '23 04:02 mariotaku