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I’m running Local in Windows, and when attempting to import my website, I got caught by this:

Feb 9, 2019, 6:45 PM GMT-2 - info: [renderer/CheckEnvPage] Check system promise response: 
[ undefined, [ 'custom:1.3' ] ]
Feb 9, 2019, 6:45 PM GMT-2 - info: [renderer/ImportSiteAnalyzePage] Message from import-site-analyze-worker: {"type":"local-export"}
Feb 9, 2019, 6:47 PM GMT-2 - warn: [main/index] Unhandled Rejection at: Promise  Promise {
  <rejected> { [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink '..\acorn\bin\acorn' -> 'C:\Users\atemp\AppData\Local\Temp\local-by-flywheel-ulZ5KHZrEo\app\public\wp-content\themes\betheme-child\assets\vendors\plyr\node_modules\.bin\acorn']
  errno: -4048,
  code: 'EPERM',
  syscall: 'symlink',
  path: '..\\acorn\\bin\\acorn',
  dest:
   'C:\\Users\\atemp\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\local-by-flywheel-ulZ5KHZrEo\\app\\public\\wp-content\\themes\\betheme-child\\assets\\vendors\\plyr\\node_modules\\.bin\\acorn' } }  reason:  
{ message:
   'EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink \'..\\acorn\\bin\\acorn\' -> \'C:\\Users\\atemp\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\local-by-flywheel-ulZ5KHZrEo\\app\\public\\wp-content\\themes\\betheme-child\\assets\\vendors\\plyr\\node_modules\\.bin\\acorn\'',
  stack:
   'Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink \'..\\acorn\\bin\\acorn\' -> \'C:\\Users\\atemp\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\local-by-flywheel-ulZ5KHZrEo\\app\\public\\wp-content\\themes\\betheme-child\\assets\\vendors\\plyr\\node_modules\\.bin\\acorn\'',
  errno: -4048,
  code: 'EPERM',
  syscall: 'symlink',
  path: '..\\acorn\\bin\\acorn',
  dest:
   'C:\\Users\\atemp\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\local-by-flywheel-ulZ5KHZrEo\\app\\public\\wp-content\\themes\\betheme-child\\assets\\vendors\\plyr\\node_modules\\.bin\\acorn' }

Plyr is a video player library I’m using, and it is built by npm and gulp, I installed the modules on the theme folder, and for some reason, the import is saying that the operation is not permitted, disabled anti-virus and everything.

Log below

local-by-flywheel.log (92.6 KB)

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What I figured is that the ‘acorn’ module is for some reason not being accepted either by Local or by the system, so what I did to make it work:

  1. Unzip the export
  2. Open the folder where the blocked files are (for me it was the node_modules inside plyr, I didn’t needed them since I already made changes and built it)
  3. Delete (or save) the blocked files (removing them from the folder)
  4. Zip everything again
  5. Drag into Local by Flywheel
  6. Profit. :smiley:

That way I got it working.
But an idea: Local could have a “ignore” funcionality to exports, or maybe prevent this kind of behavior.
Is there a specific reason for files like this being blocked?