My meteor.js application is crashing. I am getting the following error. It appears that the error is not in my application code. I would appreciate if someone could take a look at the following message and let me know how I could get rid of this error.
Error Message
Your application is crashing. Waiting for file change.
=> Modified -- restarting.
=> Errors prevented startup:
Exception while bundling application:
Error: EACCES, permission denied '/Users/username/Dropbox/LearnSoftware_and_Math/LearnJavascript/LearnMeteor/microscope/.meteor/local/build/app/collections/posts.js'
at Object.fs.unlinkSync (fs.js:582:18)
at Object._.extend.rm_recursive (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/files.js:278:10)
at _.extend.rm_recursive (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/files.js:274:15)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Function._.each._.forEach (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/lib/node_modules/underscore/underscore.js:79:11)
at Object._.extend.rm_recursive (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/files.js:272:9)
at _.extend.rm_recursive (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/files.js:274:15)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Function._.each._.forEach (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/lib/node_modules/underscore/underscore.js:79:11)
at Object._.extend.rm_recursive (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/files.js:272:9)
at _.extend.rm_recursive (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/files.js:274:15)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Function._.each._.forEach (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/lib/node_modules/underscore/underscore.js:79:11)
at Object._.extend.rm_recursive (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/files.js:272:9)
at _.extend.write_to_directory (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/bundler.js:794:11)
at Object.exports.bundle (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/bundler.js:873:12)
at /Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/run.js:694:26
at exports.inFiber (/Users/username/.meteor/tools/275efdf2db/tools/fiber-helpers.js:24:12)
=> Your application is crashing. Waiting for file change.
I searched some more on the topic and it appears to be a problem with using sudo to install some packages which meteorite requires. As suggested on this Github issues page one way to solve this is to remove the folder /.meteor/local/build in the application and restart meteor.