Issues after VSCode install

PlatformIO IDE
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So the other day I got a notice to start using VSCode so I installed it and tried to use it for a few hours but quickly came to the conclusion that it was not for me. I switched back to ATOM with PlatformIO and went back to work. I have been working on development in ESP32 and commonly upload firmware and spiffs with the terminal command:

pio run --target upload && pio run --target uploadfs

However I get all sorts of errors now. If I click the Platformio flash button in ATOM that seems to work fine, but if I try to upload firmware using the command pio run --target upload I get the following:

Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create .pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebAuthentication.cpp.o: No such file or directory
scons: *** [.pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebAuthentication.cpp.o] Error 1
Assembler messages:

Fatal error: can't create .pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebHandlers.cpp.o: No such file or directory
scons: *** [.pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebHandlers.cpp.o] Error 1
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create .pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/SPIFFSEditor.cpp.o: No such file or directory
scons: *** [.pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/SPIFFSEditor.cpp.o] Error 1
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create .pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/AsyncEventSource.cpp.o: No such file or directory
scons: *** [.pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/AsyncEventSource.cpp.o] Error 1
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create .pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebServer.cpp.o: No such file or directory
scons: *** [.pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebServer.cpp.o] Error 1
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create .pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/AsyncWebSocket.cpp.o: No such file or directory
scons: *** [.pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/AsyncWebSocket.cpp.o] Error 1
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create .pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebResponses.cpp.o: No such file or directory
scons: *** [.pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebResponses.cpp.o] Error 1
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create .pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebRequest.cpp.o: No such file or directory
scons: *** [.pio/build/development/libb03/ESP Async WebServer_ID306/WebRequest.cpp.o] Error 1
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/traviselliott/Documents/PlatformIO/Projects/ESP32_MQTT_Gateway/.pio/build/.sconsign.dblite':
  File "/Users/traviselliott/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1346:
    _exec_main(parser, values)
  File "/Users/traviselliott/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1309:
    _main(parser)
  File "/Users/traviselliott/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1091:
    nodes = _build_targets(fs, options, targets, target_top)
  File "/Users/traviselliott/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1283:
    jobs.run(postfunc = jobs_postfunc)
  File "/Users/traviselliott/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Job.py", line 113:
    postfunc()
  File "/Users/traviselliott/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1280:
    SCons.SConsign.write()
  File "/Users/traviselliott/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/SConsign.py", line 109:
    syncmethod()
  File "/Users/traviselliott/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/script/../engine/SCons/dblite.py", line 129:
    self._os_unlink(self._file_name)
Exception OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory', '/Users/traviselliott/Documents/PlatformIO/Projects/ESP32_MQTT_Gateway/.pio/build/.sconsign.dblite') in <bound method dblite.__del__ of <SCons.dblite.dblite object at 0x10bfe5610>> ign
ored

Any ideas what in the world is going on here? I’m lost and I can’t find anything on this other than to remove .pioenvs directory from the project but that directory does not exist in the project folder.

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Try removing the .pio folder, and letting PlatformIO regenerate the build cache fully. If you’ve been using VSCode with that project, there will also be a .vscode folder you can delete as its no longer needed.

If you can’t see those folder, you may need to turn on the ability to view hidden files/folders for you OS.

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Thanks @pfeerick

I actually ended up running pip -U on platformio and it seemed to have corrected the problem. As I understood it looked like I had the latest version but somehow this fixed the problem I was having.

Just out of curiosity do you know if Platformio plans to continue support for the Atom package? I tried VSCode and I just really did not like it. Maybe I’m just use to ATOM from years of use but I just couldn’t get comfortable with it at all.

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I’m not sure. It is still supported now, but as it just doesn’t have the feature set that VSCode brings out of the box, with code completion, formatting and debugging, I suspect support for Atom’s days are numbered.