Fix Windows token never saved on first login (Test-Path false positive)#144
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…ath check in PowerShell script The saveToWindowsDpapi script checked `Test-Path $env:GHPV_PATH` (file existence) before saving. On first login the destination file does not exist yet, so Test-Path returns false, the script exits with code 1, and the token is never written to disk. Subsequent restarts find no token file and log the user out every time. Fix: replace the file-existence guard with an env-var-is-set guard (`[string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($env:GHPV_PATH)`) so the script only aborts when the path variable is not provided, not when the file is absent. Co-authored-by: HayatoYagi <26685974+HayatoYagi@users.noreply.github.com> Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/HayatoYagi/PRs_Visualizer/sessions/e87c1986-c9a4-43ff-b2ab-550bf140ca44
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Fix Windows token never saved on first login (Test-Path false positive)
Mar 22, 2026
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On Windows, the OAuth token was never persisted to disk, causing the user to be logged out on every app restart — including after MSI installs.
Root cause
saveToWindowsDpapiopened its PowerShell script with a file-existence guard:On first login the token file doesn't exist yet (that's the point of the call), so
Test-Pathreturns$falseand the script exits with code 1 before writing anything. The failure is silently discarded by the caller.Fix
Replace the file-existence check with an env-var-is-set check:
This guards only against a missing
GHPV_PATHvariable (which we always inject), not against the destination file being absent. The existingNew-Itemline already handles directory creation when needed.The analogous
Test-Pathguard inloadFromWindowsDpapiFileis intentional and untouched — loading from a non-existent file should short-circuit.Warning
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