{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8687","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8687/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8687/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8687/events","html_url":"https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8687","id":91149386,"number":8687,"title":"install failing with EPERM error on windows 10","user":{"login":"tivac","id":49545,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49545?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac","html_url":"https://github.com/tivac","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivac/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"C40233"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/labels/support","name":"support","color":"FF91AF"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/milestones/21","html_url":"https://github.com/npm/npm/milestones/3.x","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/milestones/21/labels","id":1171864,"number":21,"title":"3.x","description":"","creator":{"login":"iarna","id":983798,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/983798?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna","html_url":"https://github.com/iarna","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"open_issues":5,"closed_issues":0,"state":"open","created_at":"2015-06-19T05:57:33Z","updated_at":"2015-06-26T04:35:06Z","due_on":null,"closed_at":null},"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-06-26T04:31:42Z","updated_at":"2015-06-26T04:39:09Z","closed_at":null,"body":"npm@3.0.0\r\n\r\nI've tried with both a normal cmd prompt and an Administrator prompt, no difference. Also tried on two different machines running Windows 10 build 10130.\r\n\r\n```\r\nc:\\Users\\Patrick\\Desktop\\npm3test>npm i async\r\nnpm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to c:\\Users\\Patrick\\Desktop\\npm3test\r\nc:\\Users\\Patrick\\Desktop\\npm3test\r\n└── async@1.2.1\r\n\r\nnpm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600\r\nnpm ERR! argv \"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\iojs\\\\node.exe\" \"C:\\\\Users\\\\Patrick\\\\AppData\\\\Roaming\\\\npm\\\\node_modules\\\\npm\\\\bin\\\\npm-cli.js\" \"\r\ni\" \"async\"\r\nnpm ERR! node v2.0.0\r\nnpm ERR! npm  v3.0.0\r\nnpm ERR! path c:\\Users\\Patrick\\Desktop\\npm3test\r\nnpm ERR! code EPERM\r\nnpm ERR! errno -4048\r\nnpm ERR! syscall access\r\n\r\nnpm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, access 'c:\\Users\\Patrick\\Desktop\\npm3test'\r\nnpm ERR!     at Error (native)\r\nnpm ERR!  { [Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, access 'c:\\Users\\Patrick\\Desktop\\npm3test']\r\nnpm ERR!   errno: -4048,\r\nnpm ERR!   code: 'EPERM',\r\nnpm ERR!   syscall: 'access',\r\nnpm ERR!   path: 'c:\\\\Users\\\\Patrick\\\\Desktop\\\\npm3test' }\r\nnpm ERR!\r\nnpm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.\r\n\r\nnpm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:\r\nnpm ERR!     c:\\Users\\Patrick\\Desktop\\npm3test\\npm-debug.log\r\n```\r\n\r\n[`npm-debug.log` output](https://gist.github.com/tivac/3c585b8ef6bea25d59f8)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/comments/115503880","html_url":"https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8687#issuecomment-115503880","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/npm/npm/issues/8687","id":115503880,"user":{"login":"iarna","id":983798,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/983798?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna","html_url":"https://github.com/iarna","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/iarna/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-06-26T04:39:09Z","updated_at":"2015-06-26T04:39:09Z","body":"@tivac: I'm curious if you get the same error with a more recent io.js (the current release is `2.3.1`). As of 0.12.0 and w/ all io.js releases we use the new [fs.access](https://iojs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_access_path_mode_callback) api– I don't *know* that it's been buggy in some io.js releases in Windows 10, but I could believe it."}}