Deployment error – The AppMenu called ‘AppSwitcher’ is standard and cannot be deleted on pushing to scratch org

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I am trying to do a simple push of my vscode to my scratch org using sfdx force:source:push -u [email protected] and I run into this error

Type	Project Path	Problem
Error	force-app\main\default\appMenus\AppSwitcher.appMenu-meta.xml	The AppMenu called 'AppSwitcher' is standard and cannot be deleted

In my directory, I don't have the appMenus folder at all. I can't figure out why this problem is showing up and what does the error message actually mean

Best Answer

Sometimes there's quirks with the standard metadata types - it's expecting it to be in your source as every org has two AppMenu files (AppSwitcher.appMenu & Salesforce1.appMenu). Since it's not there, it seems it attempts to delete it (which isn't possible).

You'll either want to do one of the following

Retrieve the AppMenu metadata from your source org into your repository
Exclude AppMenu in your .forceignore file for source commands so it ignores this metadata type in CLI source commands.

I'd recommend ignoring it as it doesn't add any value in your source - there's issues deploying it as such to re-order app menu items and users can easily customize the order of apps that display in the app launcher in Lightning anyway.

You can see an example of this being done in the lwc-recipes repository for certain standard metadata which includes appMenus

# Standard metadata
package.xml
**/appMenus/**
**/appSwitcher/**
**/objectTranslations/**
**/profiles/**
**/settings/**

# LWC configuration files
**/jsconfig.json
**/.eslintrc.json

# LWC Jest
**/__tests__/**

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I had to remove my duplicate rule and matching rule from my project. This might be a bug in salesforce(not sure).

I tried deactivating the rules but unfortunately could not deploy it. So, try deleting the matchingrule and duplicaterule folders.

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In the root of your project, there should be a folder called

.sfdx

In there you will find a folder called

orgs

And in there will be a folder for each org you are pushing to. Inside each of those folders you will find a file called

sourcePathInfos.json

This file is where SFDX keeps track of what files it knows about, when they were last edited, what type of thing they are, etc etc etc

To fix your problem, you can do one of two things:

Find and replace all instances of
```
force-app/main/default/aura/force-app/main/default/aura/ 
```
in that file with
```
 force-app/main/default/aura/
```
if you're on Windows you may need to swap the / with \\ but you'll be able to see what you need when you open the file. Once that's done you can do
```
sfdx force:source:push -u <your alias>
```
and it should succeed.
Alternatively you can just delete the entire file, and do
```
sfdx force:source:push -u <your alias>
```
Note: This will cause your whole project to be pushed rather than just changes, but afaict that just makes it slower - it doesn't break anything (or hasn't for me)

I've done it both ways and still haven't decided which is faster/easier. It would be nice if there was an sfdx cli command to re-scan the directory rather than having to do this by hand, but I've not found it yet...

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