# Jekyll on windows continous regeneration **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [May 14, 2020, 7:54am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424 "2020-05-14T07:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 7:54am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/1 "2020-05-14T07:54:26Z")
I’m running Jekyll on my windows machine (not by choice sadly) and when I launch the jekyll serve command I keep getting following output ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jekyllrb/original/2X/8/814eb7a9263a7b6edf93942da59c62b4dd4f5a2b.png) even though I am not changing anything…I haven’t had this experience on any other OS. Any ideas what might be causing this? I tried looking for the file, it does not exist. I tried adding it to the exclude section of the \_config.yml. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelCurrin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/michaelcurrin/32/2340_2.png) [@MichaelCurrin](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/MichaelCurrin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/2 "2020-05-14T10:39:15Z")
Puzzling. Run Jekyll in verbose mode with a flag. Check the output build directory for that file ---
**Author:** ![MichaelCurrin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/michaelcurrin/32/2340_2.png) [@MichaelCurrin](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/MichaelCurrin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/3 "2020-05-14T10:39:51Z")
Clone a fresh repo and see if the problem happens there too ---
**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/4 "2020-05-14T10:50:05Z")
@amihaescu There’s a chance that your IDE (or text-editor perhaps) is adding a temporary file to your source. ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/5 "2020-05-14T10:52:27Z")
I created a new one from scratch and got the exact same behavior. I didn’t open it in an editor. ---
**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/6 "2020-05-14T10:54:50Z")
With regard to the test repo made from scratch, are you seeing the same _Regenerating … CV.TMP_ in the terminal output? ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/7 "2020-05-14T10:55:25Z")
yes, it is exactly the same behavior. ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/8 "2020-05-14T10:57:01Z")
these are my versions: jekyll 4.0.1 ruby 2.6.6p146 (2020-03-31 revision 67876) [x64-mingw32] Bundler version 2.1.4 ---
**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/9 "2020-05-14T10:58:14Z")
Please exec the server in `debug` mode by running `bundle exec jekyll serve --verbose` and post the contents here. ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/10 "2020-05-14T11:01:21Z")
bundle exec jekyll serve -V Logging at level: debug Jekyll Version: 4.0.1 Configuration file: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_config.yml Logging at level: debug Jekyll Version: 4.0.1 Theme: minimal-mistakes-jekyll Theme source: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2 Requiring: jekyll-paginate Requiring: jekyll-sitemap Requiring: jekyll-gist Requiring: jekyll-feed Requiring: jekyll-include-cache Requiring: jekyll-paginate Requiring: jekyll-sitemap Requiring: jekyll-gist Requiring: jekyll-feed Requiring: jemoji Requiring: jekyll-include-cache Source: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog Destination: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site Incremental build: enabled Generating… EntryFilter: excluded /Gemfile EntryFilter: excluded /Gemfile.lock EntryFilter: excluded /README.md Reading: \_posts/2019-01-08-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-01-09-jvm-jdk-jre-java.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-01-14-testing-secured-endpoints.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-06-22-microservices-in-thirty-minutes.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-12-31-multiple-versions-java.md Reading: \_posts/2020-01-20-encapsulation.md Reading: \_posts/2020-03-15-abstraction.md Reading: \_posts/2020-05-14-inheritance.md Generating: Jekyll::Paginate::Pagination finished in 0.0074916 seconds. Generating: Jekyll::JekyllSitemap finished in 0.0015538 seconds. Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts Generating: JekyllFeed::Generator finished in 0.0033243 seconds. Rendering: assets/css/main.scss Pre-Render Hooks: assets/css/main.scss Rendering Liquid: assets/css/main.scss Rendering Markup: assets/css/main.scss Rendering: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Pre-Render Hooks: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Rendering Liquid: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Rendering Markup: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Rendering Layout: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Rendering: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Pre-Render Hooks: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Rendering Liquid: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Rendering Markup: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Rendering Layout: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Rendering: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Pre-Render Hooks: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Rendering Liquid: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Rendering Markup: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Rendering Layout: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Rendering: page2/index.html Pre-Render Hooks: page2/index.html Rendering Markup: page2/index.html Rendering Layout: page2/index.html Layout source: theme Include cache miss: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2/\_includes/skip-links.html Include cache miss: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2/\_includes/browser-upgrade.html Include cache miss: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2/\_includes/masthead.html Include cache miss: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2/\_includes/footer.html Rendering: sitemap.xml Pre-Render Hooks: sitemap.xml Rendering Liquid: sitemap.xml Rendering Markup: sitemap.xml Rendering Layout: sitemap.xml Rendering: robots.txt Pre-Render Hooks: robots.txt Rendering Liquid: robots.txt Rendering Markup: robots.txt Rendering Layout: robots.txt Rendering: feed.xml Pre-Render Hooks: feed.xml Rendering Liquid: feed.xml Rendering Markup: feed.xml Rendering Layout: feed.xml Rendering: assets/css/main.css.map Pre-Render Hooks: assets/css/main.css.map Rendering Liquid: assets/css/main.css.map Rendering Markup: assets/css/main.css.map Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/css/main.css Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/page2/index.html Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/sitemap.xml Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/robots.txt Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/feed.xml Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/css/main.css.map Writing Metadata: .jekyll-metadata done in 0.597 seconds. Requiring: jekyll-watch Watcher: Ignoring (?-mix:^\_config.yml) Watcher: Ignoring (?-mix:^\_site/) Watcher: Ignoring (?-mix:^Gemfile) Watcher: Ignoring (?-mix:^.jekyll-cache/) Watcher: Ignoring (?-mix:^Gemfile.lock) Auto-regeneration: enabled for ‘C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog’ [2020-05-14 13:51:07] INFO WEBrick 1.4.2 [2020-05-14 13:51:07] INFO ruby 2.6.6 (2020-03-31) [x64-mingw32] [2020-05-14 13:51:07] DEBUG WEBrick::HTTPServlet::FileHandler is mounted on /. [2020-05-14 13:51:07] DEBUG unmount . [2020-05-14 13:51:07] DEBUG Jekyll::Commands::Serve::Servlet is mounted on . Server address: [http://127.0.0.1:4000](http://127.0.0.1:4000) [2020-05-14 13:51:07] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=31424 port=4000 Server running… press ctrl-c to stop. Regenerating: 1 file(s) changed at 2020-05-14 13:51:07 CY.TMP EntryFilter: excluded /Gemfile EntryFilter: excluded /Gemfile.lock EntryFilter: excluded /README.md Reading: \_posts/2019-01-08-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-01-09-jvm-jdk-jre-java.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-01-14-testing-secured-endpoints.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-06-22-microservices-in-thirty-minutes.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-12-31-multiple-versions-java.md Reading: \_posts/2020-01-20-encapsulation.md Reading: \_posts/2020-03-15-abstraction.md Reading: \_posts/2020-05-14-inheritance.md Generating: Jekyll::Paginate::Pagination finished in 0.0025727 seconds. Generating: Jekyll::JekyllSitemap finished in 0.0014079 seconds. Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts Generating: JekyllFeed::Generator finished in 0.000484 seconds. Rendering: assets/css/main.scss Pre-Render Hooks: assets/css/main.scss Rendering Liquid: assets/css/main.scss Rendering Markup: assets/css/main.scss Rendering: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Pre-Render Hooks: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Rendering Liquid: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Rendering Markup: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Rendering Layout: assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Rendering: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Pre-Render Hooks: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Rendering Liquid: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Rendering Markup: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Rendering Layout: assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Rendering: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Pre-Render Hooks: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Rendering Liquid: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Rendering Markup: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Rendering Layout: assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Rendering: page2/index.html Pre-Render Hooks: page2/index.html Rendering Markup: page2/index.html Rendering Layout: page2/index.html Layout source: theme Include cache miss: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2/\_includes/skip-links.html Include cache miss: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2/\_includes/browser-upgrade.html Include cache miss: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2/\_includes/masthead.html Include cache miss: C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-4.19.2/\_includes/footer.html Rendering: sitemap.xml Pre-Render Hooks: sitemap.xml Rendering Liquid: sitemap.xml Rendering Markup: sitemap.xml Rendering Layout: sitemap.xml Rendering: robots.txt Pre-Render Hooks: robots.txt Rendering Liquid: robots.txt Rendering Markup: robots.txt Rendering Layout: robots.txt Rendering: feed.xml Pre-Render Hooks: feed.xml Rendering Liquid: feed.xml Rendering Markup: feed.xml Rendering Layout: feed.xml Rendering: assets/css/main.css.map Pre-Render Hooks: assets/css/main.css.map Rendering Liquid: assets/css/main.css.map Rendering Markup: assets/css/main.css.map Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/css/main.css Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/js/lunr/lunr-en.js Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/js/lunr/lunr-gr.js Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/js/lunr/lunr-store.js Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/page2/index.html Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/sitemap.xml Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/robots.txt Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/feed.xml Writing: C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_site/assets/css/main.css.map Writing Metadata: .jekyll-metadata …done in 0.5233522 seconds. Regenerating: 1 file(s) changed at 2020-05-14 13:51:08 CY.TMP EntryFilter: excluded /Gemfile EntryFilter: excluded /Gemfile.lock EntryFilter: excluded /README.md Reading: \_posts/2019-01-08-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-01-09-jvm-jdk-jre-java.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-01-14-testing-secured-endpoints.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-06-22-microservices-in-thirty-minutes.markdown Reading: \_posts/2019-12-31-multiple-versions-java.md Reading: \_posts/2020-01-20-encapsulation.md Reading: \_posts/2020-03-15-abstraction.md Reading: \_posts/2020-05-14-inheritance.md [2020-05-14 13:51:08] DEBUG close TCPSocket(127.0.0.1, 4000) [2020-05-14 13:51:08] INFO going to shutdown … [2020-05-14 13:51:08] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start done. ---
**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:05am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/11 "2020-05-14T11:05:27Z")
You seem to have `incremental: true` in your config file. Try changing it to `false` and restart the server. ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/12 "2020-05-14T11:07:04Z")
I also tried that, but I got exactly the same behavior… ---
**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/13 "2020-05-14T11:11:47Z")
Then I guess you have to explicitly _exclude CY.TMP_ from triggering a regen. In your config file, if there’s a key named `exclude`, add `CY.TMP` to the list under it. If not add it: ```auto exclude: - README.md - CY.TMP ``` ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/14 "2020-05-14T11:13:03Z")
Also tried that…still the same… ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/15 "2020-05-14T11:14:19Z")
I have tried searching for that file…but I got nothing… ---
**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/16 "2020-05-14T11:38:09Z")
_The following is a hack_ In your source directory, create a directory named `_plugins`. Inside that directory, create a file named `watcher-patch.rb` and paste the following contents: ```auto # frozen_string_literal: true require 'jekyll-watch' module Jekyll module Watcher extend self alias_method :original_listen_ignore_paths, :listen_ignore_paths def listen_ignore_paths(options) original_listen_ignore_paths(options) + [%r!.*\.TMP!i] end end end ``` Then try restarting the Jekyll server. ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/17 "2020-05-14T11:43:31Z")
I just tried it…if I do it as you suggested I get > C:/Ruby26-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/jekyll-watch-2.2.1/lib/jekyll/watcher.rb:100:in `listen\_ignore\_paths’: wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1) (ArgumentError) If I remove the options argument I get > C:/Users/andrei\_mihaescu/gitwork/blog/\_plugins/watcher-patch.rb:11:in `listen\_ignore\_paths’: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 0) (ArgumentError) Btw thank you for trying to help me. ---
**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/18 "2020-05-14T11:45:18Z")
Sorry. There’s a small typo. It should have been `original_listen_ignore_paths(options)` instead. I’ve updated the code above. ---
**Author:** ![amihaescu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/amihaescu/32/2510_2.png) [@amihaescu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/amihaescu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/19 "2020-05-14T11:47:07Z")
Wow…that actually worked 😃 thank you so much. You are a legend. ---
**Author:** ![ashmaroli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@ashmaroli](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ashmaroli)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424/20 "2020-05-14T11:48:43Z")
You’re welcome. However, it is only a temporary solution. You may encounter the same error on a different jekyll site. [Next page](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-on-windows-continous-regeneration/4424.md?page=2)