CodeBot cannot move files between writable folders

CodeBot
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When folders are added to “Extra File System Access”, it can read or write but not move between writable folders.

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Thanks Iaacov - will look into it.

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On a different task where CodeBot was asked to move files, it initially failed then said it was going to try a different approach and succeeded.
I asked CodeBot to write the technical details of the failed move and the successful workaround.

Here’s what it wrote:

Here are the exact technical details of the failed rename and the workaround.

The failure was on renameFile during the RUNDS-182 archive step (moving review markdown files from E:/Tickets/CR to E:/Tickets/Done).

From tool-history evidence:

entryId 9900  renameFile old=E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview.md
result: Error: File not found in project: E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview.md

entryId 10000 renameFile old=E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview_FollowUp1.md
result: Error: File not found in project: E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview_FollowUp1.md

Retrying with relative ../Tickets/... paths failed the same way (entryId 10300, 10400), and folder probes also showed ../Tickets/CR / ../Tickets/Done were not valid from the active workspace root (entryId 11100, 11200).

Why it failed: in this client/session, renameFile behaved as project-scoped and rejected those ticket artifacts as “not in project,” even though the files existed on disk.

How it was overcome: the archive move was done with applyPatch file-move operations instead of renameFile:

entryId 12200 applyPatch
Move: E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview.md -> E:/Tickets/Done/RUNDS-182_CodeReview.md
Move: E:/Tickets/CR/RUNDS-182_CodeReview_FollowUp1.md -> E:/Tickets/Done/RUNDS-182_CodeReview_FollowUp1.md
result: success

Post-checks confirmed the move completed:

  • E:/Tickets/Done contains both files (entryId 12700)
  • E:/Tickets/CR is empty for RUNDS-182 files (entryId 12800).
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Thankyou. This looks like an issue with our folder permissions - we will look into it.