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android studio projects getting corrupted after a restart

After upgrading to arctic fox, I faced this issue. Opened a project I worked previously with older version of android studio was fine, but after restart its files became full with gibberish values. I thought its a hardware failure issue. But this happening again today with other projects, so I want a solution.
After working, closing and reopening the project the files contents became corrupted/changed:
File contents changed on previous project, showing difference with git:
ArcticFoxPatch2, Projects are built with gradle 7.0.2.
Solutions tried:
I have tried potential solution of invalidating cache and restart, but the files stays same.
Android studio warns and suggest wrong encoding but reloading with multiple other encoding did not resolve file contents.
What should be a solution?
Should I change hardware, eg ssd? or downgrade android studio?

Please run android studio like this.
Click Android Studio and click right button on mouse, then click "Run as Administrator".
Hope it helpful for you.

Android Studio overwritten a whole project [duplicate]

I have an odd problem with Android Studio.
Here is how my class file looks like on Android Studio
And here is what it looks like on a text editor.
Any ideas why it is happening? I have tried closing then reimporting the project, invalidate caches and restart, clean project, build project, delete .idea folder and .iml files. All of my files are broken when opening in AS but looks fine on text editors.

UPDATE: Quicker solution by the user Hong given below:
Delete the caches folder: C:\Users\my_user_name\.AndroidStudio3.3\system\caches
=====================
Here's what worked for me.
Close Android Studio
Go to C:\Users*your username*
Locate the Android Studio settings directory named .AndroidStudioX.X (X.X being the version)
Rename it to something like old.AndroidStudioX.X
Start Android Studio, and when it asks if you want to import settings, choose the old directory
This should fix the issue.

Thanks to the Answer of Asim, I found deleting folder caches fixed the problem for my case (all gradle files in Android Studio show contents that have nothing to do with the actual contents of these files):
C:\Users\my_user_name\.AndroidStudio3.3\system\caches
Edit[2020-07-17]:
This is still happening with Android Studio 4.0, so I have to delete the following folder to fix this problem:
C:\Users\my_user_name\.AndroidStudio4.0\system\caches
Edit[2021-11-08]:
This solution no longer works for Android Studio Arctic Fox. Please see the new answer by Nikunj Paradva. I have used the new solution and it works.

Solution for Android studio Arctic Fox and Higher Versions
Steps
Exit Android Studio
Delete caches folder from
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\AndroidStudio2020.3 // For Arctic Fox
Open Android Studio and your code has being Perfect
Check your Android studio version and Target that version folder at below location
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google
Note : AppData folder is Hidden in Windows

Does this situation warrant a bug report?
Yes! In fact this problem has been reported to the Android Studio team, and anyone willing to help us investigate is welcome to contribute there. Thanks!
You can also try the workaround in Hong's answer.

Close Android studio and then delete the caches folder: C:\Users\user_name\.AndroidStudio3.4\system\caches

Try to delete the Android Studio IDE cache data listed below per your platform:
Windows:
%USER%\.AndroidStudio[Preview]_X.Y_
Mac:
~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio[Preview]_X.Y_
~/Library/Caches/AndroidStudio[Preview]_X.Y_
~/Library/Logs/AndroidStudio[Preview]_X.Y_
~/Library/Application Support/AndroidStudio[Preview]_X.Y_
Linux:
~/.AndroidStudio[Preview]_X.Y_
See: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases#delete-unused

Updated my android studio days ago and was faced with the same problem. Solved it by uninstalling android studio and reinstalling the previous version set up I had left the SDK intact so I didn't have to re-download them working perfectly guess I won't be updating again soon.

Thanks to #Henry for confirming, by several similarly observed whacko problems the past two days, that my problem is indeed caused by a bug in AS. Follow his links to become convinced yourself. I'll let Henry file the bug report.
So there's no fixing my problem in situ without great effort--wait for bug fix.... which could take awhile.
So here's what I did to work around it and get back to work (it took less than 10 minutes):
create new project with no activity
(Do the rest inside the IDE, not using Windows or DOS.)
copy all .java files into the java folder in the IDE (it's ...\app\src\main\java\)
copy all res folders into the res folder (...\app\src\main\res\)
copy all asset files into main folder (...\app\src\main\assets\)
copy androidmanifest.xml into main folder (...\app\src\main)
do a global replace of old project name to new project name
I didn't change any of the files in the new project's ...\app\ folder because compilation was normal.
(I'll tell you this: when I saw what I THOUGHT were mangled FILES and looked at the History and saw nothing resembling what should have been there, I got a sick feeling, but I immediately opened Windows Explorer, selected all of the project's java files, and opened them, en masse, with Notepad++. Whew. No problems seen. (I didn't really think AS could actually mangle the files and I doubt it ever could. But it did wake me up at 5am!))

copy your android project to another location then open it from android studio

I changed my projects location and it solved my problem. This happened when my system was accidently shut down due to power failure.

Android Studio freezes on indexing

my project was working well but suddenly when I ran it on my phone, Android Studio freezes and I should stop it from task manager.
before this happens I installed "Geny motion" & "Virtual Box", but when the error occurred I uninstalled them. but the problem insisted.
Solutions I've tried
I uninstalled it and installed it again
I unplugged and plugged in my device
I disabled android indexing from setting
None of the above solutions worked.

I had today this exact problem. None of the above helped me until I found simple solution here
Just run File -> Invalidate Cache and Restart
That simple and it works!!!

Delete all Android Studio data - .gradle .android .androidstudio folders from your home folder. And all project build folders gradle and iml files.

This worked for me.
1.Close the project
2.Remove the project
3.Close Android Studio
4.Open it again
5.Open the project
Enjoy Coding!

I checked my java file and I saw somehow all the code in one of my java files was replaced with "NULL NULL NULL NULL....."
I deleted the file and the application runs without a problem.

Android Studio (3.1.3) froze on me while editing a source file. I waited and finally killed the process in Task Manager (Windows). Twice I tried to start up again and both times it got stuck with the "indexing..." message in the lower right. Both times I ended the process in Task Manager.
I looked in the source folder of the project I was working on. The source file I had been editing when it froze was "Receipt.java". There was another file in the src folder "Receipt.java__jb_tmp__". I deleted that file and Android Studio started up fine. It looks like I lost some edits, though.
When I did start up, it detected there had been some error and offered to submit a report.

If the project is large & has a lot of modules, you might need to increase the Allocated Heap Size for Android Studio.
Go to Edit Custom VM Options from Help menu and increase the value for -Xms and -Xmx
This is what I'm using
-Xms2048m
-Xmx8192m
-XX:MaxPermSize=2048m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1024m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops

In my case color was declared as invalid, Android Studio ignored that and during building it froze. I had to remove the file, let it index, paste it back and fix the color string (it gave me error when I entered the pasted file)

just rename project folder then open IDE, it will show
now rename back to origin folder name, click open project
it work on my case

I have older project with sdk version 22, when I open it in android studio 3.1.2 on macOS. It keep indexing forever, everything was installed and configured properly but indexing loop never stopped.
Following worked for me
File > Invalidate caches/restart… > Invalidate caches/restart

Go to the File menu and click the option Invalidate Caches / Restart This will solve the problem ! Enjoy ;)

android studio rendering timeout

I have a problem with Android Studio. Since this morning I can't edit my layouts through the Design interface. It's stuck on "Initializing Rendering Library" and the IDE freezes. All my layouts were working well yesterday and I haven't changed anything since then.
I have tried to invalidate the cache and restart but without any result.

Try that steps :
1.Update Android SDK and Android Developer Tools.
2.If that will not help, reinstall Android Studio using the newest available version (remember to do a backup of your data and projects).
3.If that will not help, install other IDE for example Eclipse and import all your projects to it.
Good luck !

For me helped such steps:
Remove .gradle folder from the project folder, all *.iml files and
.idea
Remove C:\Users\username.AndroidStudioPreview1.2
Run Android Studio without importing settings. This will allow to see a dialog where you can open your project from scratch. If you
import settings then Android Studio will open previously opened
*.xml files which caused the problem (hanging "Initializing Rendering Library") and the situation will happen again
Run Gradle cleanup
Sync project
Invalidate cache and Restart
Build the project from command line. If use Build from AndroidStudio I got hanging "scanning files to index..."

I reinstalled my android studio without success,
Then, I downloaded the sdk again, and change my old sdk-path to the new one
After I restarted my studio, it works.
The most mysterious thing is, I rechange my sdk-path back to my older one, then every thing is ok,I don't know why,but it solved the problem

Surprise behavior of eclipse for C files while using JNI, Why so?

I am developing an Android App in which I use lot of JNI Code.. Recently (from last 2-3 days I am really annoyed by surprise behavior of eclipse) it shows me vague errors as soon as I open my .c file... However errors disappear if I close and reopen the project. See the secreen shot attached. Is it because I just update my eclipse installation (just update of eclipse plugins, I am still on my old Indigo)...
Is it an eclibse bug or something wrong with my setup ?
Solved ????
I tried everything but noting could change the behavior of eclipse.. By this time I knew that I have certainly messed with the project Settings by mistake, since eclipse was behaving well in other projects of same workspace. So I recreated the project manually and finally that solved myproblem...Though the Question is still open for valuable answers I think soon I will get some good answers..
UPDATE
Even eclipse 4.2 release also has this problem.. #frustrating

I found that deleting the project and than reimporting the project to workspace solves the problem. However I also came to knew that deleting .cproject file from the project tree can also fix this problem. Fixing the NDK path (Window -> Preferences -> Android-> NDK) in Eclipse preferences may also solve the problem.
Solution 2 Which may work in few cases...
Right click on the project.
Select Android Tools -> Fix Project Properties