File Already Exists

npm tried to create a file or directory at a path that already exists, often a leftover from an interrupted install, a stale cache entry, or a broken symlink. Remove the conflicting file or directory and retry, or pass --force to overwrite it.

Also defined in

posix File exists An attempt was made to create a file that already exists, where exclusive creation was required.
windows-errno File exists The file already exists and the operation requires it to not exist (e.g. exclusive create).

References

docs.npmjs.com/common-errors

In this namespace

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EACCES EAUDIT EBADENGINE ECONNREFUSED ECONNRESET EEXIST EINTEGRITY EINVALIDPACKAGENAME EJSONPARSE ELIFECYCLE ENEEDAUTH