# IOError: connect: no such file or directory (ENOENT) at VSCode startup

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ioerror-connect-no-such-file-or-directory-enoent-at-vscode-startup/109288>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [January 26, 2024, 8:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ioerror-connect-no-such-file-or-directory-enoent-at-vscode-startup/109288 "2024-01-26T08:42:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TimG](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TimG)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 8:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ioerror-connect-no-such-file-or-directory-enoent-at-vscode-startup/109288/1 "2024-01-26T08:42:52Z")

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I use VSCode on Win10. Every time I start up VSCode from scratch, before I do anything, I get the following error. I’ve had it for a few days but I have no idea what I did to trigger it. How can I make it go away?

```julia
 * History restored 

ERROR: LoadError: IOError: connect: no such file or directory (ENOENT)
Stacktrace:
 [1] wait_connected(x::Base.PipeEndpoint)
   @ Sockets C:\Users\TGebbels\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.10.0\share\julia\stdlib\v1.10\Sockets\src\Sockets.jl:528
 [2] connect
   @ C:\Users\TGebbels\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.10.0\share\julia\stdlib\v1.10\Sockets\src\Sockets.jl:563 [inlined]
 [3] connect
   @ C:\Users\TGebbels\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia-1.10.0\share\julia\stdlib\v1.10\Sockets\src\PipeServer.jl:103 [inlined]
 [4] serve(args::String; is_dev::Bool, crashreporting_pipename::String)
   @ VSCodeServer c:\Users\TGebbels\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.66.2\scripts\packages\VSCodeServer\src\VSCodeServer.jl:110
 [5] top-level scope
   @ c:\Users\TGebbels\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.66.2\scripts\terminalserver\terminalserver.jl:39
in expression starting at c:\Users\TGebbels\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.66.2\scripts\terminalserver\terminalserver.jl:14
julia> 

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Thanks!

[[Related post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77954350/ioerror-connect-no-such-file-or-directory-enoent-at-vscode-startup) on Stack Overflow]

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**Author:** ![TimG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TimG](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TimG)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ioerror-connect-no-such-file-or-directory-enoent-at-vscode-startup/109288/2 "2024-02-07T16:29:24Z")

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Reported [here](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/3145).