Aug 18 2019 01:45 PM
I finally had time to track this one down.
When using the MSIX Packaging Tool, there is an option to specify an installation directory. It seems that it is necessary to specify a directory that already exists before you get into the monitoring mode. I have found that if I specify a directory that doesn't exist (using 2019.701), the following occurs:
While there is question in my mind as to if VFS should be the default, this behavior is problematic. The packaging tool should either scold me when I type in a non-existent directory or (better) just make it for me before entering monitoring mode.
Aug 19 2019 12:42 AM
I've submitted this in the feedback hub as a bug 2 weeks ago (no answer yet). Good to know I am not the only one with this problem.
Aug 19 2019 11:39 AM
Thanks for reporting this issue!
We will be looking into it for future releases of the tool. For now, please continue to use the manual workaround you mentioned of ensuring the directory exists.
Sorry for the inconvience!
Thanks!
James