Sherlock fails to load project: /name must be string. Received value: null

[alisamar]

When opening VS Code with the Sherlock extension enabled, the following error appears:

Failed to load project "/Users/studio/Projects/SvelteTemplates/svelte-example/project.inlang": 
Error: The provided snapshot content does not match the schema 'lix_account' (1.0).

/name must be string. Received value: null

Environment:

VS Code:

Version: 1.104.0
Commit: f220831ea2d946c0dcb0f3eaa480eb435a2c1260
Date: 2025-09-10T06:46:18.035Z
Electron: 37.3.1
ElectronBuildId: 12342881
Chromium: 138.0.7204.235
Node.js: 22.18.0
V8: 13.8.258.31-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 20.6.0

Sherlock extension version: 2.0.17
OS: macOS Big Sur 11.7.10 (20G1427)

[SomaticIT]

I have the same issue.

FYI, I had an issue before that was resolved on paraglide-js, maybe it's related:
opral/inlang-paraglide-js#556

[alisamar]

Thanks for sharing @SomaticIT. I did some digging on my side and it seems related — when I try to validate my project with inlang, I consistently get an error running @inlang/cli validate. The process crashes with SQLite3Error: DB has been closed, and so far I haven’t found any workaround or solution for this problem.

Validating the inlang project...
Error processing file queue entry: SQLite3Error: DB has been closed.
    at toss3 (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:47972:17)
    at affirmDbOpen (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:48141:13)
    at DB.changes (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:48300:24)
    at SqliteWasmConnection.executeQuery (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:51652:93)
    at SqliteWasmDriver.rollbackTransaction (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:51723:22)
    at RuntimeDriver.rollbackTransaction (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:37076:25)
    at .../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:37578:34
    at async DefaultConnectionProvider.provideConnection (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:36965:14)
    at async handleFileInsert (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:58082:3)
    at async queueWorker (.../node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:58249:13) {
  resultCode: 1
}
✔ The project is valid!

[samuelstroschein]

The DB closed one should be resolved next week with the release of lix v0.5. Has been dragging on for a while but I am getting close.

[alisamar]

That’s great to hear, thanks for the update @samuelstroschein ! Looking forward to the v0.5 release.

[zshall]

I'm having the same problem in a brand new project; I installed the Sherlock extension and the Paraglide library through npx sv add paraglide and it was working, but when I relaunched VS Code I get:

Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'errors')

Failed to load project "c:\[path]\project.inlang": Error: The provided snapshot content does not match the schema 'lix_account' (1.0). /name must be string. Received value: null

[samuelstroschein]

still taking longer, sorry.

[dande-sun]

Hi @samuelstroschein , Sorry to bother you, but I have a same issue. also, our network in company is restricted, a lot domains we are can not access, example the domain https://inlang.com. so, can we move the schema to local, this way, at least it can be used to manage messages on local.

[samuelstroschein]

You can just remove the $schema key from the json file

[BAHAA-THE-KING]

I am also having this problem, no solution yet ?

I am using Win11, I have used npx @inlang/paraglide-js@latest init on my ReactJS Vite setup,
then installed the packages using pnpm,
when installing the sherlock extension I got this error

Error: The provided snapshot content does not match the schema 'lix_account' (1.0). /name must be string. Received value: null

tried for NodeJS v20.15.0 and v22.20.0, all same,
tried npx inlang validate --project ./project.inlang and got

ℹ 🔎 Validating the inlang project... 10:48:57 a.m.
Error processing file queue entry: SQLite3Error: DB has been closed.
at toss3 (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:47972:17)
at affirmDbOpen (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:48141:13)
at DB.changes (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:48300:24)
at SqliteWasmConnection.executeQuery (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:51652:93)
at SqliteWasmDriver.rollbackTransaction (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:51723:22)
at RuntimeDriver.rollbackTransaction (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:37076:25)
at file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:37578:34
at async DefaultConnectionProvider.provideConnection (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:36965:14)
at async handleFileInsert (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:58082:3)
at async queueWorker (file:///C:/Users/ghost/Desktop/myProjects/Medicuras/AL-Barq/website/node_modules/@inlang/cli/dist/main.js:58249:13) {
resultCode: 1
}
✔ The project is valid!

[samuelstroschein]

opral/monorepo#3706. Will be released when opral/monorepo#3682 is merged. Really crossing my fingers for this week

[samuelstroschein]

Published as 2.1.0. Can you confirm that it works?

[BAHAA-THE-KING]

Well, the error is gone
But:
✔️ The project is displayed in the projects tab
✔️ The messages are displayed in the messages tab
✔️ The errors tab is displaying "No Errors Found"
❌ When clicking edit on a message it takes a lot of time to open (and sometimes it doesn't open)
❌ There is loading that doesn't end, sometimes in the errors tab and sometimes in the recommendations tab and sometimes in the projects tab
Maybe this is the same problem #170

Update:
when restarting the IDE the loading was in the recommendations tab, after a while it's gone, and the edit button in the messages is working but taking about a minute to work.