vscode on mac unable to debug using "run and debug"

[mpankaj-code]

I set up the launch.json using: {
"type": "lldb",
"request": "launch",
"name": "Terminal Debug",
"program": "${workspaceFolder}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
"args": [],
"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
},

but when I launch the debugger it says "unable to find executable for '/Users/..."->Open "launch.json"

This was working fine till a few days back. tries reinstalling the C/C++ extensions as well as CodeRunner but no success