Tsconfig show typescript file not found error after moving it to another directory or delete it.

Issue Type: Bug

When I move a typescript file from a directory into another directory or delete the file from vscode, it shows a problem in tsconfig.json file:

File '/home/justin/Projects/dochub/src/menu.ts' not found.
The file is in the program because:
Matched by include pattern '**/* ' in '/home/justin/Projects/dochub/tsconfig.json' ts [1, 1]

I mean, yeah of course it's not found because I moved it into another directory.

Reopening vscode will solve this, but it is annoying ... Hope this will be fixed soon :)

VS Code version: Code 1.55.2 (3c4e3df9e89829dce27b7b5c24508306b151f30d, 2021-04-13T09:37:02.931Z)
OS version: Linux x64 5.11.0-16-generic snap

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Please share your tsconfig and a overview of your project structure

It's an electron project, structure:

...
├── node_modules
├── src                          # Source code
│   ├── config                 
│           ├── theme.json
│   ├── drives.ts
│   ├── main.ts
│   ├── preload.js
│   ├── theme.js
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── README.md
└── tsconfig.json

My tsconfig.json file is generated by tsc --init command.

I am not able to repro this with simple delete or file move.. Can you create a small repro project and list the steps (where are you moving file or which file are you deleting) Also sharing tsserver.log would be very helpful. Thanks
You can upload logs by following these steps:

Set "typescript.tsserver.log": "verbose"
Restart vscode or vscode insiders
Reproduce the problem
In vscode or vscode insiders, run the TypeScript: Open TS Server log command
This should open a large file called tsserver.log. Please share this file. Additionally you can also share file ti.log created next to it.

You can repro this bug by these steps:

Clone the electron-quick-start
Change main.js to main.ts
Edit the main value on package.json to main.ts

Create a new file called hello.ts
Code for hello.ts:

const Hello = () => {
   return "Hello World"
}

module.exports = Hello

Inside the preload.js file add these line:

const hello = require('./test/hello.ts')
hello()

Create a new folder called test, move hello.ts into the folder, update import on the preload.js file
Problem occurs

tsserver.log
ti-66130.log

Following.
I had a similar issue come up after duplicating a .tsx file and then renaming the copy.

I always have this error when moving unused *.ts files to another folder or deleting them.

TypeScript error in undefined(undefined,undefined):
File '<path>/pipeline-editor/src/DragNDrop/Sidebar copy.tsx' not found.
  The file is in the program because:
    Matched by include pattern 'src' in '<path>\pipeline-editor\tsconfig.json'  TS6053

I have to kill and re-run npm start to make it work again

I solved the problem with this modification (in linux environment):

"include": ["src/**/*.ts", "src/js/**/*.tsx"]

to "include": ["./src/**/*.ts", "./src/js/**/*.tsx"]

Heads up that modifying your tsconfig.json file will cause the TypeScript language server to automatically restart. So it's unlikely these issues are fixed by just changing the include. The TypeScript team needs to fix this issue.

Good to know I'm not alone! Thought this was a problem with CRA-TypeScript. I did find (someone else's solution which I scoured upon) that deleting node-modules and then running "yarn" or "npm install" to reinstall them will fix it. A huge pain though, especially with large projects on a slower/older computer..

Actually reopening vscode will fix this, but it's really really annoying tho, that's why I opened this issue.

I was looking for the solution then I was told just close your VScode and reopen it, the error is gone now. All my expectations that it would be a bug have gone in vain, It sucks.

I had a similar issue

File 'd:/Tutorials/ProLeap/proleap-backend/src/users/entities/user0session.entity.ts' not found.
  The file is in the program because:
    Matched by default include pattern '**/*'ts
JSON schema for the TypeScript compiler's configuration file

This happened when I cancelled the popup by VSC which asked refactor the imports?. I simply ignored it and that resulted in this error.

Solution:
I re-created the file user0session.entity.ts and then deleted it correctly. The error was gone like magic.

Probably in your case, copy the contents and delete the config file. Re-create it with the same contents.

Hope this helps.

Enabling
typescript.tsserver.experimental.useVsCodeWatcher: true and typescript.tsserver.experimental.enableProjectDiagnostics: true at the same time causes this error.

My solution: Set typescript.tsserver.experimental.useVsCodeWatcher: false

Update to Typescript 5.5, it fixes this problem. The current version of VSCode ships with Typescript 5.4.5, however you can easily change it to use the "workspace" version, assuming you have installed latest Typescript in your project.

Open the command palette (ctrl+shift+p) -> Typescript: Select Typescript Version.

#58120 (I think).

virtuallyunknown

We can just update it in VSCode, as virtuallyunknown mentioned. This should fix the problem.

"devDependencies": {
    "typescript": "^5.5.2"
  }

If you are still facing issues after updating to typescript@latest or typescript@next , please open new issue as this one is old and things have changed since then,.

We need clear repro steps and tsserver log when you open the issue to be able to investigate it.
Thanks

This happened on 5.5.4. . Deleted a ts file in /src/routes/my.ts. Found this thread. Restarted TS server and now the message is gone. Will try to create a new issue if it happens again and add steps to reproduce.

Steps might have been:

delete my.ts
see errors about missing references in problems panel
delete import statements
see remaining error (this one) from tsconfig.json

Not sure if this will help but another developer working on the same project created a folder Activity but we had all the pages with lowercase characters. After renaming Activity to activity it worked.

For those looking for a workaround that actually does work (assuming restart TS server is an acceptable solution). When using vscode, you can install the extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gabrielgrinberg.auto-run-command

Add this to .vscode/settings.json

"auto-run-command.rules": [
  {
    "event": "onFileRename",
    "command": "typescript.restartTsServer"
  },
  {
    "event": "onFileDelete",
    "command": "typescript.restartTsServer"
  },
],

Relaunch window and you're done.

Adding to donverduyns clever workaround:

auto-run-command did not work for me but I found another extension that did: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=appulate.filewatcher

Also works when deleting folders.

settings.json:

 "filewatcher.commands": [
    {
      "match": ".*\\.tsx?$",
      "event": "onFileRename",
      "vscodeTask": "typescript.restartTsServer",
      "isAsync": true
    },
    {
      "match": ".*\\.tsx?$",
      "event": "onFileDelete",
      "vscodeTask": "typescript.restartTsServer",
      "isAsync": true
    },
    {
      "match": ".*",
      "event": "onFolderDelete",
      "vscodeTask": "typescript.restartTsServer",
      "isAsync": true
    }
  ]

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