cypress: Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, mkdir on windows for cypress + windows + Angular project

Current behavior:

When cypres@3.8.3 is run on windows in Angular project, i am getting this type of error when i click on any test specs and try to run and capture image snapshot: Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, mkdir 'C:\Users\rocks\AppData\Roaming\Cypress\cy\production\projects\styleguide-e2e-a8ba09f50d81ec188e3b12528503dca9\bundles\C:\Users\rocks\project\torque\styleguide\cypress\support

Cypress cache folder is: C:\Users\rocks\AppData\Roaming\Cypress\cy\production\projects for windows.

Error1 Error2

Desired behavior:

It should not throw any error on windows system.

Test code to reproduce

Package.json

{
"cypress": "3.8.3",

"cypress-axe": "^0.8.1",

"cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": "^2.0.1",

"cypress-image-snapshot": "^3.1.1",
}

NPM command to open cypress:

npm run nx-high-memory -- e2e styleguide-e2e --watch
```
cypress.josn config file
```json
{
  "video": false,

  "testFiles": "**/*.{feature,features}",

  "fixturesFolder": "../../cypress/fixtures",

  "integrationFolder": "../../cypress/integration",

  "pluginsFile": "../../cypress/plugins/index",

  "supportFile": "../../cypress/support/index",

  "screenshotsFolder": "../../cypress/screenshots"
}
```
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### Versions

```json
"cypress": "3.8.3",

"cypress-axe": "^0.8.1",

"cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": "^2.0.1",

"cypress-image-snapshot": "^3.1.1",

"chrome": "Version 85.0.4183.102 (Official Build) (64-bit)"

"windows": 10
```
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About this issue

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State: open
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 5
Comments: 32 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I am able to reproduce this by setting a relative supportFile path in config

We found a workaround for this issue:

Create nested/cypressSupportForWindows.js file with content:

import '../support/index';

and then change nested/cypress.json to point that file

“supportFile”: “cypressSupportForWindows.js”,

akselil on Jan 13, 2021

Can be reproduced with the following repo: https://github.com/ausi/cypress-issue-8599

git clone git@github.com:ausi/cypress-issue-8599.git
cd cypress-issue-8599
cd subdirectory
npm install
npx cypress run

This results in the following output (only on Windows):

Oops...we found an error preparing this test file:

  > ..\support.js

The error was:

Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, mkdir 'C:\Users\████\AppData\Roaming\Cypress\cy\production\projects\subdirectory-8d97a5303e393e4931bd1dd983377a82\bundles\C:\Users\████\Desktop\cypress-issue-8599'

ausi on Jul 18, 2023

I will help you fix this but trying to reproduce the issue based on snippets and comments is a bit time consuming, can you please upload a repo I can clone and reproduce the issue? That will let me spend more time finding a fix. Thanks!

lmiller1990 on Jul 16, 2023

I am able to reproduce this by setting a relative supportFile path in config

Setup Reproduction project: https://github.com/artkoselev/cypress8599 OS: Windows Cypress package version: 6.2.1 Cypress binary version: 6.2.1 Electron version: 11.1.1 Bundled Node version: 12.18.3

Reproduction steps

Clone repository
call ‘npm install’
call ‘npm test’

Expected: Cypress visits cypress.io page Actual: Error thrown - Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, mkdir 'C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming\Cypress\cy\production\projects\nested-0b20f090537cddae1cfb3da2204e4eae\bundles\C:\Users\{user}\cypress8599\support

Notes: npm test calls npx cypress run --project nested and nested project contains entry "supportFile": "../support/index.js". From the error message it seems that the path gets converted to absolute which results in an invalid argument for ‘mkdir’ - ... bundles\C:\Users\{user}\ ...

artkoselev on Jan 11, 2021