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error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied

I installed FastAPI and followed the example in the official docs. At first I had the uvicorn not recognized error which was resolved by restarting the VSCode app. Then I ran the main.py app but here are the logs

PS C:\Users\g> uvicorn main:app --reload
INFO:     Will watch for changes in these directories: ['C:\\Users\\g']
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
INFO:     Started reloader process [10052] using watchgod
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
WARNING:  The --reload flag should not be used in production on Windows.
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
INFO:     Started server process [8592]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data'
error walking file system: PermissionError [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\g\\AppData\\Local\\Application Data

The server and program runs just fine, I can open the URL and the docs page. I was wondering which package raises the error walking file system, since C:\Users\g\AppData\Local\Application Data doesn't actually exist in my file tree. How do I suppress the error log?

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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