Submit Error: couldn't find it

[NobbZ]

@janus commented on Sat Jul 14 2018

I got this message each time I try to submit;
exercism submit isogram.c
~/exercism/c/isogram/src$ tree
.
├── isogram.c
└── isogram.h

0 directories, 2 files

~/exercism/c/isogram/src$ exercism submit isogram.c Error: couldn't find it

When I tried exercise 1 it worked , this issue started after I upgraded exercism. What is it that I am doing wrong?

Troubleshooting Information

Version

Current: 3.0.2
Latest: 3.0.2

Operating System

OS: linux
Architecture: amd64

Configuration

Home:
Workspace: /home/eva/exercism
Config: /home/eva/.config/exercism/user.json
API key: *****************************

API Reachability

GitHub:
* https://api.github.com
* [connected]
* 468.457524ms

Exercism:
* https://api.exercism.io/v1/ping
* [connected]
* 6.07206924s

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@NobbZ commented on Sat Jul 14 2018

That error means that you are missing the .solutions.json (or some other file, but its a dotted-JSON) that gets only created when you download the exercise with the current client.

Make sure you fulfill the preconditions for downloading the exercise, backup your stuff, download via CLI, apply your backup and resubmit.

[NobbZ]

The error message in this case should be improved. Perhaps explain the problem and print the workaround of redownloading?

[nelsonmfinda]

Try it getting starter

[kytrinyx]

Ah! I thought I had fixed the error messages but this one slipped through. The error message can definitely be improved. Thank you @NobbZ :)

[kytrinyx]

I found where I fixed this! It's in a branch on my local copy of the repo that I never pushed up. Also I didn't actually quite finish fixing it. It's been a busy week!