# DoneJS Error: add component **URL:** \ **Category:** DoneJS\ **Created:** [February 6, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145 "2016-02-06T17:52:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TNBassWebmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@TNBassWebmaster](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/TNBassWebmaster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/1 "2016-02-06T17:52:35Z")
Starting from Scratch, I installed the following on Windows 7 Home Premium: - Node - v0.12.9 - Npm - 2.14.9 - Chocolatey - Python 2.7.11 - Windows SDK 7.1 - Visual Studio Express 2014 Desktop Then rand the following a the command prompt: npm install -g donejs npm init donejs-chat npm install bootstrap --save All of the above ran just fine w/o any errors… When I get to the following section of the Quick Start Guide: [http://donejs.com/Guide.html#section=section\_Generatecustomelements](http://donejs.com/Guide.html#section=section_Generatecustomelements) I get the following error when trying to add a component: C:\_\_source\donejs\donejs-chat\>donejs add component home.component chat-home x No ‘folder’ or ‘appName’ specified. Neither in your .yo-rc.json nor in your package.json file Not sure what needs to be done to remedy the issue… Any assistance is greatly appreciated!! ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/2 "2016-02-06T18:04:34Z")
Is there a .yo-rc.json? Can you show the contents here? ---
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.yo-rc-json does not exist… The following is the list of files in the project folder: .gitignore build.js development.html documentjs.json node\_modules package.json production.html readme.md ---
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The following is the src contents: C:\_\_SOURCE\DONEJS\DONEJS-CHAT\SRC | app.js | [index.md](http://index.md) | index.stache | styles.less | test.html | ±–models | | test.js | | | —fixtures | fixtures.js | —test functional.js test.js ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/5 "2016-02-06T18:14:45Z")
I’ll take a look at it in about 30 min. My guess is that it was caused by [https://github.com/donejs/generator-donejs/commit/cc003434fe49e2727823b374b44e7a63f05c0569](https://github.com/donejs/generator-donejs/commit/cc003434fe49e2727823b374b44e7a63f05c0569) ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/6 "2016-02-06T18:19:33Z")
Actually, that version would produce a different error. Can you run an ‘npm cache clean’ and try ‘donejs init’ again? ---
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Well… It didn’t like that cache clean… ## C:\_\_source\donejs\>donejs init donejs-chat Initializing new DoneJS application at C:\_\_source\donejs\donejs-chat Installing donejs-cli > spawn-sync@1.0.15 postinstall C:\_\_source\donejs\donejs-chat\node\_modules\donejs-cli\node\_modules\yeoman-gene > rator\node\_modules\cross-spawn\node\_modules\spawn-sync > node postinstall npm ERR! Windows\_NT 6.1.7601 npm ERR! argv “C:\Program Files\nodejs\\node.exe” “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node\_modules\npm\bin\npm-cl i.js” “install” “donejs-cli@^0.6.0” “–loglevel” “error” npm ERR! node v0.12.9 npm ERR! npm v2.14.9 npm ERR! path C:\Users\TheGriz\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\xtend\4.0.1\package\package.json npm ERR! code EPERM npm ERR! errno -4048 npm ERR! Error: EPERM, rename ‘C:\Users\TheGriz\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\xtend\4.0.1\package\package.json’ npm ERR! at Error (native) npm ERR! { [Error: EPERM, rename ‘C:\Users\TheGriz\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\xtend\4.0.1\package\package.json’] npm ERR! errno: -4048, npm ERR! code: ‘EPERM’, npm ERR! path: ‘C:\Users\TheGriz\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\xtend\4.0.1\package\package.json’, npm ERR! parent: ‘through2’ } npm ERR! npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator. npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! C:\_\_source\donejs\donejs-chat\npm-debug.log Error: Command `npm` did not complete successfully at ChildProcess. (C:\Users\TheGriz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node\_modules\donejs\lib\utils.js:45:23) at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17) at ChildProcess.cp.emit (C:\Users\TheGriz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node\_modules\donejs\node\_modules\cross-spawn-a sync\lib\enoent.js:37:29) at Process.ChildProcess.\_handle.onexit (child\_process.js:1075:12) ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/8 "2016-02-06T18:34:38Z")
Just to make sure, you removed the old app before re-initing? ---
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I renamed the original folder to donejs-chat,bak before running the cache clean & init commands. ---
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I uninstalled/reinstalled Node… Removed all existing project folders… Then installed DoneJs… During donejs init donejs-chat, it display the following files: C:\_\_source\donejs\donejs-chat └── generator-donejs@0.6.3 ? Project name donejs-chat ? Project main folder src ? Description ? Project homepage url ? GitHub username or organization ? Author’s Name ? Author’s Email ? Author’s Homepage ? Application keywords ? NPM version used 3 Writing package.json v0.6.5 create package.json create [readme.md](http://readme.md) create documentjs.json create .gitignore create build.js create production.html create development.html create src\test.html create src\app.js create src\index.stache create src\[index.md](http://index.md) create src\styles.less create src\test\test.js create src\test\functional.js create src\models\fixtures\fixtures.js create src\models\test.js Looks like the YO file is still missing… ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/11 "2016-02-06T18:46:11Z")
YO doesn’t need to exist in latest. ---
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I think I have a work around… Downloaded from Git: place-my-order Copied the ,yo-rc.json file from the downloaded project over to donejs-chat. Then updated it with the following content: { “generator-donejs”: { “folder”: “src”, “name”: “donejs-chat” } } Afterwards, I was able to run the add component command successfully. C:\_\_source\donejs\donejs-chat\>donejs add component home.component chat-home create src\home.component ---
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How can I check/retrieve the latest generator version? ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/14 "2016-02-06T18:48:50Z")
Verified `donejs add component` works: - on my mac - with `npm cache clean` - with no `yo-rc`. Will try my win 10 machine next. ---
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Thanks for the assistance today!! Nothing like working on a Saturday… ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/16 "2016-02-06T18:51:40Z")
`donejs init` should always install the latest version of everything compatible with the getting started guides. Depeding on your version of NPM, how it’s configured, sometimes it uses a cached version, so it won’t install latest. However, a `npm cache clean` should always fix that. So to be confident of getting the latest of everything you should just have to do: ``` npm cache clean donejs install -g donejs donejs init ``` But really, `donejs init` is all you really should have to do. ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/17 "2016-02-06T19:20:49Z")
when you ran `donejs init` did you run it as admin? I am seeing permission errors. Might want to try running it as an administrator. ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-error-add-component/145/18 "2016-02-06T19:39:32Z")
verified that: - node 0.12.9 - on win 10 works. I didn’t have to run the administrator console, but if you see permission errors again, I’d try it out.