makeDirectoryAsync() error "could not be created"

Expo SDK
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I’m getting Sentry reports from some of my Android customers who get errors during makeDirectoryAsync(). The error is “Directory xxx could not be created”.

The odd thing is that if I call getInfoAsync() after it fails, the directory has actually been created. It looks like await makeDirectoryAsync() reported failure early but then went on to create it anyway.

To debug it I made a function that creates a directory that doesn’t exist. On error it shows the directory existence before and after:

// Create any app folders that don't already exist
export const checkAndCreateFolder = async folder_path => {
  const folder_info = await Expo.FileSystem.getInfoAsync(folder_path);
  if (!Boolean(folder_info.exists)) {
    // Create folder
    try {
      await FileSystem.makeDirectoryAsync(folder_path, {
        intermediates: true
      });
    } catch (error) {
      // Report folder creation error, include the folder existence before and now
      const new_folder_info = await Expo.FileSystem.getInfoAsync(folder_path);
      const debug = `checkAndCreateFolder: ${
        error.message
      } old:${JSON.stringify(folder_info)} new:${JSON.stringify(
        new_folder_info
      )}`;
      console.log(debug);
      Sentry.captureException(new Error(debug));
    }
  }
};

The Sentry reports show that before creation getInfoAsync() returned:

{"isDirectory":false,"exists":false}

And after makeDirectoryAsync() failed and returned “could not be created” getInfoAsync() shows it actually exists:

{"size":4096,"modificationTime":1532552616,"uri":"file:///data/data/com.test.test/files/ExperienceData/%2540test%252Ftest/subfolder","isDirectory":true,"exists":true}
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Hey @mlight,

Thanks for the detailed report. I pinged internally about this. Either I or one of the team members will hop in when we know more!

Cheers,

Adam

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I’m also receiving this error with makeDirectoryAsync(). To replicate is simple:

try {
      let folder = FileSystem.documentDirectory + "testfolder"
      await FileSystem.makeDirectoryAsync(folder, {
        intermediates: true
      })

      var fi = await FileSystem.getInfoAsync(folder);

      alert(JSON.stringify(fi))
    } catch(error) {
      alert(error)
    }
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Tracking this here: https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/2050

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