Electron-builder: Can't build application while VSCode is open

[de-it-rick]

• Version: 20.38.5

I'm working on an application using electron-vue, which uses electron-builder, and building the application used to work perfectly fine untill last week. When I run npm run build (which runs this script: node .electron-vue/build.js && electron-builder), the first part runs perfectly fine, but when it comes to electron-builder, it crashes during the packaging with the following error:

⨯ remove C:\Users\DE-IT\Documents\ODCEStatus\dev\build\win-unpacked\resources\app.asar: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

I tried building the exact same version I built last week (and which worked fine), and I ended up with the same error again. Also tried another, older, project which I didn't change after I finished it and that also didn't work.

What did work however, was closing Visual Studio Code.
I ran npm run build within a VSCode terminal and in GitBash (while VSCode was still running), and both times I got the same error again. However, when I completely closed VSCode, electron-builder didn't encounter any problems.

[nminchow]

If you don't want to close VSCode for every build, adding:

{
  "files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/build/win-unpacked/**": true
  }
}

to my workspace settings fixed this problem for me.

[Cycov]

Thank you !
Just to remember to restart VSCode after adding that line.

For those who don't know is in File->Preferences->Settings and the click the curly brackets button in top right corner

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