"Errno::EACCESS...permission denied" running compass watch
compass-sass, ruby, sass, windows
Solution
To get it to work in 32 or 64bit windows, I done what Min Ren suggested but I also had to manually clean the gem repository (`C:\Users\myusername\.gem\specs\rubygems.org%443\quick\Marshal.4.8`) of all the sass and compass gemspec files after the uninstall steps. I also installed sass before compass.
gem uninstall compass
gem uninstall sass
manually clean .gem
gem install sass --version "3.2.10"
gem install compass --version "0.12.2"
Problem
I just migrated my project files onto a new PC on the `D:` drive whilst my programs (Git, Node Js, Ruby, etc) are on the `C:` drive. I have tried to run `compass watch` after editing a SASS file, but encounter this error: ``` Errno::EACCES on line ["897"] of C: Permission denied - <D:/project_dir/stylesheets/app.css20140323-10532-gziux, D:/project_dir/stylesheets/app.css> Run with --trace to see the full backtrace ``` I'm a novice with Ruby at the command line (as I only use it for web development purposes). What do I need to do to allow the permissions? Please let me know if I can provide more information. EDIT: Here's what was returned after running `compass watch --trace`: ``` D:\project_dir>compass watch --trace >>> Change detected at 21:53:53 to: app.scss overwrite stylesheets/app.css Errno::EACCES on line ["897"] of C: Permission denied - (D:/project_dir/stylesheets/app.css20140323-14712-11v62k7, D:/project_dir/stylesheets/app.css) C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/sass-3.2.18/lib/sass/util.rb:897:in `atomic_create_and_write_file' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/actions.rb:58:in `write_file' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/compiler.rb:143:in `compile' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/compiler.rb:118:in `compile_if_required' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/compiler.rb:103:in `block (2 levels) in run' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/compiler.rb:101:in `each' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/compiler.rb:101:in `block in run' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/compiler.rb:126:in `timed' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/compiler.rb:100:in `run' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/commands/watch_project.rb:147:in `recompile' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/commands/watch_project.rb:68:in `perform' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/commands/base.rb:18:in `execute' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/commands/project_base.rb:19:in `execute' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/exec/sub_command_ui.rb:43:in `perform!' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/lib/compass/exec/sub_command_ui.rb:15:in `run!' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/bin/compass:30:in `block in <top (required)>' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/bin/compass:44:in `call' C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/compass-0.12.4/bin/compass:44:in `<top (required)>' C:/Ruby200-x64/bin/compass:23:in `load' C:/Ruby200-x64/bin/compass:23:in `<main>' >>> Compass is polling for changes. Press Ctrl-C to Stop. ``` I don't know what to make from that though. From doing some reading (https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/issues/1406) I believe it's something to do with the permissions or PATH for 'Ruby' & 'Ruby Gems' but I don't know what to do to resolve this.