https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/105346/i-have-connect-sdk-v2-5-0-i-cannot-configure-a-board-in-vs-code-it-keeps-saying-no-boards-foundI installed the nrf sdk from a different user account and discovered I was getting the above problem because of hidden git errors in the SDK folder saying these folders had &quot;dubious ownership&quot; and that I needed to run &quot;git config --global --add safe.directoryen-USTelligent Community 13Tue, 07 Nov 2023 11:37:44 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/454422?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Nov 2023 11:37:44 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:e76f0b55-4891-40b3-84da-3750e019714fKarl Ylvisaker<p>Great, I have reported this to our developers - thank you for bringing this to our attention, we appreciate the feedback! :)&nbsp;<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Karl</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/454285?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:56:25 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:39b0e809-3329-4303-ab4b-e35a89fafd9bChris Lovett<p>Thanks, yes I&#39;m just raising it for awareness, you could add this to the documentation or troubleshooting sections in case anyone else hits this&nbsp;situation.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/454189?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 06 Nov 2023 12:30:01 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:4d6dbef5-cb99-4478-b012-898ef56fd620Karl Ylvisaker<p>Hello,<br /><br />Thank you for confirming.<br />If I am not mistaken the dubious ownership issue will be caused by your windows user/profile settings,&nbsp; which seems like a very specific issue when accessing the SDK from a windows user other than the user that installed the SDK.&nbsp;<br />I will let the developers know about the silent git failure so that they may have a look at elevating those messages.<br /><br />In any case, the best way to avoid this would be to use version control tools like git to access to latest changes made by the other user, or to relax the ownership settings for the SDK access.<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Karl</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/454028?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:02:07 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:c6adc403-022c-41a2-a42c-bb902a5aa341Chris Lovett<p>No you have it correctly the SDK is installed into c:\ncs and when I tried to use it from a different windows user account it fails in very mysterious ways resulting in &quot;no boards found&quot;.&nbsp; The nrf connect&nbsp; vscode extension hides the real reason it fails.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/453989?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:45:46 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:48f0e568-957a-48ff-8fe6-db322c6ec104Karl Ylvisaker<p>Hello,<br /><br />I am not sure if I have understood your issue here exactly - did you install the nRF Connect SDK on a different windows user, create a board file, change windows user, and then try to access the SDK on the other windows user through the nRF Connect SDK VSC extensions, which failed?<br />I get the feeling that I might have misunderstood something about the setup here.<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Karl</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>