Directory '/Users/vsts/agent/2.152.1/work/16/a' is empty. Nothing will be added to build artifact 'drop'

Question

I'm getting below warning while building Artifacts on Azure Deops pipeline. Unable to integrate continuous deployment because publish Artifact for Xamarin iOS project:

[warning]Directory '/Users/vsts/agent/2.152.1/work/16/a' is empty. Nothing will be added to build artifact 'drop'

I'm building this solution for Xamarin.iOS and need to publish it on App Center.

YAML for PublishBuildartifacts

task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
displayName: 'Publish Artifact: drop'
inputs:
PathtoPublish: '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)'
condition: succeededOrFailed()

YAML for CopyFiles steps:

task: CopyFiles@2
displayName: 'Copy Files to: $(build.artifactstagingdirectory)'
inputs:

SourceFolder: '$(system.defaultworkingdirectory)'
Contents: '**/*.ipa'
TargetFolder: '$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)'
CleanTargetFolder: true
condition: succeededOrFailed()

Does the same warning still occurred after remove the single quotes? Feel free to let me know the last status:-) — Merlin Liang - MSFT
Thanks @MerlinLiang-MSFT While checking in the iOS project, I selected appropriate provisioning profile for AdHoc. And checked in the solution again and it worked!!! — Snehal Jadhav

Merlin Liang - MSFT Merlin Liang - MSFT · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-12T12:11:14

The error caused by your Contents format of CopyFiles task is incorrect. As a folder path, you should not use /, modify it to \.

So change your the Contents as:

Contents: **\*.ipa

Directory '/Users/vsts/agent/2.152.1/work/16/a' is empty. Nothing will be added to build artifact 'drop'

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