VSCode extension crashes on multiple schema files: EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/Users/{random system user!}/Downloads'

[vladyslav-n]

Bug description

We've decided to try out the multi-schema setup and apparently the Prisma extension stopped working as soon as we changed the shcema property in prisma config to prisma/ folder. Also, veeery weird errors were showing in the extension's output:

[Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir '/Users/work/.Trash'] {
  errno: -1,
  code: 'EPERM',
  syscall: 'scandir',
  path: '/Users/work/.Trash'
}

In fact, it contained a lot of logs for scandir errors for completely random path locations for random macos system user directories, and the paths included Documents, .Trash, Downloads: really weird and suspicious!

How to reproduce

Our config:

export default defineConfig({
  schema: "prisma/",
  migrations: {
    path: "prisma/migrations",
    seed: "tsx prisma/seed.ts",
  },
  datasource: {
    // Use placeholder during build (e.g. pnpm generate); real URL at runtime for migrate/seeds
    url:
      process.env.DATABASE_URL ??
      "postgresql://placeholder:placeholder@localhost:5432/placeholder",
  },
});

prisma generate works, just the extension crashes. As for the rest – we have only 1 schema file: schema.prisma:

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
}

generator client {
  provider        = "prisma-client"
  output          = "../src/core/prisma/generated"
  moduleFormat    = "cjs" // Matches Prisma's output format with NestJS's CommonJS runtime environment.
  previewFeatures = ["relationJoins"]
}

generator typegraphql {
  // provider        = "typegraphql-prisma-select-nestjs"
  // provider        = "node /Users/mac/auditorium/typegraphql-prisma-nestjs-select/src/cli/dev.ts"
  provider        = "node ./prisma/generator/src/cli/dev.ts"
  output          = "../src/core/graphql/#generated"
  useSimpleInputs = true
}

// ==================== Enums ====================

enum Role {
...

Prisma information

Prisma v. 7.9.0

Additional logs from the extension's output:

Node.js v24.15.0
[Info  - 7:52:14 PM] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
[Info  - 7:52:14 PM] Default version of Prisma 'prisma-schema-wasm': 3c6e192761c0362d496ed980de936e2f3cebcd3a
[Info  - 7:52:14 PM] Extension name @prisma/language-server with version 31.11.0
[Info  - 7:52:14 PM] Prisma Engines version: 7.8.0-6.3c6e192761c0362d496ed980de936e2f3cebcd3a
[Info  - 7:52:14 PM] Prisma CLI version: 7.9.0-dev.4
node:internal/process/promises:394
    triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
    ^

[Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir '/Users/work/.Trash'] {
  errno: -1,
  code: 'EPERM',
  syscall: 'scandir',
  path: '/Users/work/.Trash'
}

Node.js v24.15.0
[Info  - 7:52:19 PM] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
[Info  - 7:52:19 PM] Default version of Prisma 'prisma-schema-wasm': 3c6e192761c0362d496ed980de936e2f3cebcd3a
[Info  - 7:52:19 PM] Extension name @prisma/language-server with version 31.11.0
[Info  - 7:52:19 PM] Prisma Engines version: 7.8.0-6.3c6e192761c0362d496ed980de936e2f3cebcd3a
[Info  - 7:52:19 PM] Prisma CLI version: 7.9.0-dev.4
node:internal/process/promises:394
    triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
    ^

[Error: EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/Users/Test/Library'] {
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'scandir',
  path: '/Users/Test/Library'
}

Node.js v24.15.0
[Info  - 7:52:24 PM] Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.
[Info  - 7:52:24 PM] Default version of Prisma 'prisma-schema-wasm': 3c6e192761c0362d496ed980de936e2f3cebcd3a
[Info  - 7:52:24 PM] Extension name @prisma/language-server with version 31.11.0
[Info  - 7:52:24 PM] Prisma Engines version: 7.8.0-6.3c6e192761c0362d496ed980de936e2f3cebcd3a
[Info  - 7:52:24 PM] Prisma CLI version: 7.9.0-dev.4
node:internal/process/promises:394
    triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
    ^

[Error: EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/Users/Test/Downloads'] {
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'scandir',
  path: '/Users/Test/Downloads'
}

Node.js v24.15.0
[Error - 7:52:29 PM] Connection to server got closed. Server will not be restarted.

Environment & setup

• OS: macOS 15.5 (24F74)
• Editor: VSCode (or Cursor)
• Editor version: 1.118.1
• Extension version: 31.11.0