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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua, vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the error by opening a recent project from the dashboard, then inspect dashboard/theme/hyper.lua around the callback shown in the traceback and Telescope's extension-loading path. Confirm the fix by opening a recent project successfully without the missing find_files extension error.

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 Error 5:26:03 PM msg_show.lua_error E5108: Error executing lua: vim/_editor.lua:431: nvim_exec2(): Vim:Error executing Lua callback: ...a/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/init.lua:10: 'find_files' extension doesn't exist or isn't installed: module 'telescope._extensions.find_files' not found: no field package.preload['telescope._extensions.find_files'] cache_loader: module telescope._extensions.find_files not found cache_loader_lib: module telescope._extensions.find_files not found no file '.\telescope\_extensions\find_files.lua' no file 'C:\Tools\neovim\nvim-win64\bin\lua\telescope\_extensions\find_files.lua' no file 'C:\Tools\neovim\nvim-win64\bin\lua\telescope\_extensions\find_files\init.lua' no file 'C:\Dev\Lua\5.1\lua\telescope\_extensions\find_files.luac' no file '.\telescope\_extensions\find_files.dll' no file 'C:\Tools\neovim\nvim-win64\bin\telescope\_extensions\find_files.dll' no file 'C:\Tools\neovim\nvim-win64\bin\loadall.dll' no file '.\telescope.dll' no file 'C:\Tools\neovim\nvim-win64\bin\telescope.dll' no file 'C:\Tools\neovim\nvim-win64\bin\loadall.dll' stack traceback: [C]: in function 'error' ...a/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/init.lua:10: in function 'load_extension' ...a/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/init.lua:17: in function '__index' .../nvim-data/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/command.lua:183: in function 'run_command' .../nvim-data/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/command.lua:259: in function 'load_command' ...Local/nvim-data/lazy/telescope.nvim/plugin/telescope.lua:108: in function <...Local/nvim-data/lazy/telescope.nvim/plugin/telescope.lua:107> [C]: in function 'nvim_exec2' vim/_editor.lua:431: in function 'cmd' ...m-data/lazy/dashboard-nvim/lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua:305: in function <...m-data/lazy/dashboard-nvim/lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua:282> stack traceback: [C]: in function 'nvim_exec2' vim/_editor.lua:431: in function 'cmd' ...m-data/lazy/dashboard-nvim/lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua:305: in function <...m-data/lazy/dashboard-nvim/lua/dashboard/theme/hyper.lua:282>

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  1. Go to Dashboard
  2. Click on A Recent Project
  3. See error

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Using nvim 10.0, latest branch of all plugins as well.

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