# ERR! ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rename, Can you comment the error here?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/err-enotempty-directory-not-empty-rename-can-you-comment-the-error-here/84239>\
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**Created:** [3 January 2024 08:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/err-enotempty-directory-not-empty-rename-can-you-comment-the-error-here/84239 "2024-01-03T08:31:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [3 January 2024 08:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/err-enotempty-directory-not-empty-rename-can-you-comment-the-error-here/84239/1 "2024-01-03T08:31:41Z")

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Can you comment the error here? What do you think is due to this? thank you for your attention

2024-01-03T07:33:14.144Z Remove : interra-io-background-services

2024-01-03T07:33:14.478Z npm remove --no-audit --no-update-notifier --no-fund --save interra-io-background-services  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.554Z [err] npm  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.561Z [err] ERR!  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.563Z [err] code ENOTEMPTY  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.565Z [err] npm ERR!  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.567Z [err]  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.571Z [err] syscall rename  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.571Z [err] npm  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.573Z [err] ERR! path /data/node\_modules/interra-io-background-services  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.573Z [err] npm  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.575Z [err] ERR!  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.577Z [err] dest /data/node\_modules/.interra-io-background-services-tFKKQ3t3  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.582Z [err] npm ERR! errno -39  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.597Z [err] npm  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.601Z [err] ERR! ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rename '/data/node\_modules/interra-io-background-services' -\> '/data/node\_modules/.interra-io-background-services-tFKKQ3t3'  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.632Z [err]  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.635Z [err] npm  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.637Z [err] ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.637Z [err] npm ERR! /data/.npm/\_logs/2024-01-03T07\_33\_20\_234Z-debug-0.log  
2024-01-03T07:33:28.683Z rc=217

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**Post date:** [3 January 2024 08:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/err-enotempty-directory-not-empty-rename-can-you-comment-the-error-here/84239/2 "2024-01-03T08:38:08Z")

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> [@sercancetin](#):
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> ENOTEMPTY

Search this ↑ and you will see many many similar posts.

The solution is simply to delete the offending dir. In your case `/data/node_modules/.interra-io-background-services-tFKKQ3t3`

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**Post date:** [3 January 2024 08:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/err-enotempty-directory-not-empty-rename-can-you-comment-the-error-here/84239/3 "2024-01-03T08:43:00Z")

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I solved the problem. What I want to ask is what causes this problem. For example, I encounter this problem when uploading a new tgz file from 0.0.1 to 0.0.2. Is it related to the project's package.json? Why does it add --tFKKQ3t3 to the old file? Is this related to npm?

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**Post date:** [3 January 2024 09:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/err-enotempty-directory-not-empty-rename-can-you-comment-the-error-here/84239/4 "2024-01-03T09:15:52Z")

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> [@sercancetin](#):
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> Is this related to npm

Yes.... and no.

This usually happens when an `npm` command (e.g. `npm install xyz`) get terminated before it is finished - typically due to slow (or interrupted) internet, manual interruption (ctrl+c), crash etc.

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**Post date:** [3 March 2024 09:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/err-enotempty-directory-not-empty-rename-can-you-comment-the-error-here/84239/5 "2024-03-03T09:16:45Z")

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