fs.readdir permission denied to read directory, but I can read files from directory

[Olga27210278vxwm]

const fs = require("fs");
const paths = fs.readdirSync("test");
console.log(paths);

above gives the error: "Permission denied to read  directory. Engine: UXPScript File: I (uxp://uxp-internal/webfs-scripts.js)"

The below works fine:

const fs = require("fs");
let txt = fs.readFileSync("test\\test.txt", {encoding: "utf-8"});
console.log(txt);

lstatSync gives [console] {"_info":{"isFile":false,"isDirectory":true}}
Giving it all possible permissions, and opening InDesign as admin didn't help.

I'm on Windows 10 Pro

Is there any other way to grep the content of the directory?

[琥珀 猫太郎 · Accepted solution]

You may need to specify a "file:" scheme.
In my case the following UXP Script worked.

const myFs = require("fs");
const myFilesAndDirectoriesList  = myFs.readdirSync("file:C:/Users/user/Desktop");

[Olga27210278vxwm]

Thank you very much! It works if I provide a full path.

However, it reads files from the local path, but returns a blank error message and  "-4058" in the console if  I try local path to the folder like this:

"file:test"
"file:\\test"
"file:test\\"
"file:\\test\\"

 What is "4085"? Is there any way around it?

[琥珀 猫太郎]

I don't know if local path can be used.

You can get home directory path.

require("fs").readdirSync(`file:${require("os").homedir()}/Desktop`);

[Olga27210278vxwm]

Thank you very much! It solves it. Also, I discovered another method that gives me the whole path:

app.activeScript

On Widows:

C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Version 18.0\en_US\Scripts\Scripts Panel\test.idjs

I just have to replace to remove the text after the last slash and add the folder name.

let scriptPath = app.activeScript;
if (/\//.test(scriptPath)) {
    scriptPath = scriptPath.replace(/(.*\/).*$/, "$1");
}else{
    scriptPath = scriptPath.replace(/(.*\\).*$/, "$1");
}const paths2 = fs.readdirSync(`file:${scriptPath}test`);

Hope it will be useful for others too.