CreateProcess error=206, The filename or extension is too long - Android Studio
What does this error mean and how can I solve it?
I tried Android-Studio in committing projects and Tortoise SVN, seems like tortoise-svn does the job unlike android-studio's plugin which is SVN. I dont really understand why, but Tortoise-svn is working so I think this could be an answer.
Make long story short: The temporary-fix is using Tortoise Svn rather than using Android-Studio's SVN.
Windows has a max path length of 260 characters. See max path length of 260 characters. See Android Studio - Unable to open PNG file
According to another thread the "svn cmd absolute path" works, but the relative one "cd /your/project/path;svn cmd yourproject" doesn´t (It´s a Windows File System "Problem")
Android Studio seem to work with relative paths, Tortoise with absolute. The error message also says
cannot run program ( IN directory .../.../yourproject)
Which confirms this assumption.
Hopefully they will change it in future!!
I had the same problem and installing Tortoise SVN didn't solve it. I proceeded to commit individual directories in my project step by step, trying to find the file/directory that was causing the problem. My surprise was when I finished all commits and no error had arised.
So the solution for my problem was to commit all my files/directories step by step.
I know the thread is a bit old but here is a a work around for googlers ,
Android Studio gives you the exact address of the folder which can not be committed:
Error:Cannot run program "svn" (in directory "c:\blah-blah"): CreateProcess error=206, The filename or extension is too long
Unless AS or Microsoft does something for supporting file names longer than the current limitation, here is a couple of workarounds to pass this :
1- to commit the given folder c:\blah-blah using another svn client eg. TortoiseSVN
2- to move your project folder closer to the root of the drive, for example if your project is in d:\Development\Android Studio\sources\project x\Version 3\... try to move it closer to the root, by removing and/or renaming in between folders like: d:\dev\as\src\x\v3\... or d:\x\v3\...
3- I read somewhere that creating a virtual drive in windows from the last folder would work too, for example, create a z:\ and assign it to d:\Development\Android Studio\sources\project x\Version 3\ but I read somewhere else that this might not work cause the AS svn client work with absolute path of files, any way I made the job done with options 1 and 2 and never got to try the third option
The error is often produced when too many files are commited at once and the command line client is used; as the files are delivered to the client in one line, the line becomes too long (svn commit file1 file2 ...). See also SVN commit fails when committing lots of files in one commit (resulting svn command length exceed the limit). My solution to this problem was to uncheck "Use command line client" in the settings under "Version Control - Subversion".
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I am using Android Studio 3.1 Preview and get an error when I attempt to import some projects:
Cannot Open Project
The length of the project file exceeds the limit of 100 characters
This error occurs whether I am importing cloned projects from github or old projects I have saved with Eclipse. Is there a way to import these projects?
In Android 3.1, if you are running up against the 100 character limit, instead of using Import project (File>New>Import Project), use File>Open, select your project, and then select the OK button.
I am not sure whether import offers some additional functionality beyond forcing you to rethink using long paths of > 100 characters. For my purposes, using the File>Open method allows the selection of projects with long paths and preserves existing directory structures.
I was facing same problem with Android Studio 3.1 in Linux. After some tests I concluded that it considers the FULL path as the project length (from /home/ to Project root), which cant exceed 100 characters.
This warning message is also shown when you try to create a new project.
I didn't found where to customize it. So, as a workaround, check if you can reduce this full path length.
Best Regards
I faced the same issue and solve this by limiting the character size. Try to limit your project name within 15 characters.
For example, if your project directory name like
some-name-of-the-project
then you need to adjust the name within 15 characters
some-name-of-th
I am looking for the setting to increase the length of the project name more than 15 characters.
With Windows environment you could try to create a virtual driver as I'm doing. Use the subst command. For example I have the following giant path:
C:\Users\MyUser\Source\Demos\Android\ud851-exercises\Lesson02-GitHub-Repo-Search\T02.05-Exercise-CreateAsyncTask
Using the command subst E: "C:\Users\MyUser\Source\Demos\Android\ud851-exercises" I can then import into Android Studio using the virtual path
E:\Lesson02-GitHub-Repo-Search\T02.05-Exercise-CreateAsyncTask
It worked for me since I don't want to change anything in the repository's path.
Anyone having this problem, it is simple. In my cases, the project folder is in a multiple stack folder. What I did is, I copy it and paste it directly in D folder.
D:/project-file.
Dont D:/bla/bla-bla/project-file
You get this error if the number of characters in the full path(including the project root from /home or /Users) >= 100.
You can use this command to check: pwd | wc -c
Move your project folder for example into C: and rename the main folder to contains 1 char. It should looks like C:a\android-project
I was facing same issue in android studio 3.1.3,when I change the project directory name to too short.Error clears.
For example, if your project directory name like
Testingandroidsamplesomeprojectname
Change to
Testing
In Android Studio 3.3.2.
I have faced the same issue. Got following solution.
1.Best way to move your project from particular folder to another folder which contains the short path and then import from there.
2.If you don't want to move your project then try to open it by File -> Open. After that it may not build properly. Then just do File -> Re-Import Gradle Project. It will solve your problem.
I was trying to upload my project to GitHub on Android-Studio.
Pushing to GitHub master... process never ends and Version Control Console gives this Error:
GitHub --credentials get: github: command not found
'C:\Users\SA'EED~1\AppData\Local\Temp\git-askpass-2722525787662236837.bat" "Username'
is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I only find an empty repository on my GitHub.
Assuming that you have the latest version of GitHub, check your git path.
Settings->version Control -> Path to git-executable
It should be something like -> C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe
Note this may vary upon where you have installed GitHub.
Try
Test
It should be a success. Try to push your code again.
If this does not work try solution 2
Solution 2:
Simply make a copy of your project(copy and paste) in some other location. Delete the .git physically from the new copy. Import the new copy into android studio again. Go to version control System(VCS)->Import into Version Control->Share project on github or bitbucket(whichever you have set up). Then enter master password and new repository name. Then your setup is complete and push your code.
You might find the answer you're looking for in this post: http://jrxie.blogspot.de/2014/02/github-credentials-get-github-command.html
tl;dr: you want to add your equivalent of the following folder to your PATH.
C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\LNKHAB6L.QR1\LP7D7JB2.E6Z\gith..tion_317444273a93ac29_0003.0000_c74cce3a838f9354
The folders inside Apps\2.0 are probably named differently, but you shouldn't have any problems finding the right ones.
Has anyone tried to work with AOSP using IntelliJ IDEA? I see in Android sources a specific folder (development/ide/intellij) but I cannot find any information how to use it in case of Android development (for Eclipse the information can be found here: http://source.android.com/source/using-eclipse.html) Can anyone provide similar instructions how to start developing Android in IDEA?
Also a good reading here: https://shuhaowu.com/blog/setting_up_intellij_with_aosp_development.html
If you get
Couldn't find idegen.jar. Please run make first.
You'll need to generate it first:
source build/envsetup.sh
cd development/tools/idegen
mm
croot
development/tools/idegen/idegen.sh
Be prepared that AOSP files indexing in IJ takes long time (more than 1 hour on my notebook with an SSD on board), a reason to use Eclipse, as I believe it doesn't need to build indexes so loads AOSP code much faster.
It's worth reducing android.iml file with removing AOSP parts you are not interested in. You can add them to development/tools/idegen/excluded-paths via a regular expression pattern, see README file there.
I added following lines to excluded-paths:
^cts
^developers
^development
^external
.*/tests/.*
^sdk
so my android.iml got quite moderate size and loads in about 1-2 minutes instead.
idegen has also intellij-gen.sh which can generate IJ project for given module.
As mentioned in the article above, you can tweak IJ to work faster (add more RAM, etc). Here goes my idea64.vmoptions just in case:
-server
-Xms2048m
-Xmx4096m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024M
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1024M
-XX:+UseCodeCacheFlushing
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+UseParNewGC
-XX:ParallelGCThreads=8
-XX:+AggressiveOpts
-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode
-XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing
-XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycleMin=0
-XX:-TraceClassUnloading
-XX:+TieredCompilation
-Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Djsse.enableSNIExtension=false
You can google idea.vmoptions optimization, there are some posts about it (and where I took my IJ config from)
From AOSP root folder,
1) First build your target. That will generate whatever java files that need to be generated during aosp build.
2) Create a shadow dir of aosp dir using lndir.
Assuming your aosp dir is ~john/work/aosp/ics.
Then create ~/john/work/aosp/icsshadow
Cd to icsshadow and invoke "lndir ../ics". That will create symlinks to everything under ics.
3) Now you use icsshadow for all the stuff your IDE needs/generates. If you use ics folder, the aosp build some times fails if the IDE generates any build artifacts.
4) cd to icsshadow directory.
Invoke development/tools/idegen/idegen.sh
Wait until it is done.
5) If you want to use IntelliJ, open android.ipr from icsshadow folder. If you want to use Eclipse, Please check Using Eclipse to edit/browse AOSP code.
Official instructions can be found by going to development/tools/idegen path and checking the README file. It's a good idea to read it yourself. This is the content for IntelliJ:
If you're using IntelliJ...
If this is your first time using IDEGen...
IDEA needs a lot of memory. Add "-Xms748m -Xmx748m" to your VM options
in "IDEA_HOME/bin/idea.vmoptions" on Linux or
"IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/Info.plist" on OS X.
Create a JDK configuration named "1.6 (No Libraries)" by adding a new
JDK like you normally would and then removing all of the jar entries
under the "Classpath" tab. This will ensure that you only get access to
Android's core libraries and not those from your desktop VM.
From the project's root directory...
Repeat these steps after each sync...
1) make (to produce generated .java source)
2) development/tools/idegen/idegen.sh
3) Open android.ipr in IntelliJ. If you already have the project open,
hit the sync button in IntelliJ, and it will automatically detect the
updated configuration.
If you get unexpected compilation errors from IntelliJ, try running
"Build -> Rebuild Project". Sometimes IntelliJ gets confused after the
project changes significantly.
The following error message might pop up when following the instructions.
Couldn't find idegen.jar. Please run make first.
You can fix the error message by reading here: https://www.protechtraining.com/blog/post/860?ncr=1
Run the below command from the Android source root directory.
make idegen -j4 && development/tools/idegen/idegen.sh
Then launch IntelliJ idea, and select the .ipr file generated. Then on the next screen select the .ipr based project property.
Works for me and better than using the android studio, because there is an annoying background scan all the time with the android studio.
I've got an automated build system from my Android project using Jenkins which syncs via SVN.
Occasionally I get new files added to the workspace which I assume are from the SVN process that are collisions. When this happens in the resource folder it causes a build failure as the file extensions are stripped and there is a name space collision.
e.g.
[aapt] res\drawable\icon.png.r584:0: error: Resource entry icon is already defined.
[aapt] res\drawable\icon.png:0: Originally defined here.
[aapt] res\drawable\icon.png.r588:0: error: Resource entry icon is already defined.
[aapt] res\drawable\icon.png:0: Originally defined here.
Any ideas why I'm getting these r584, r588 files? Probably more importantly, how do I stop this from happening?
Whilst the jenkins build is local to the machine, the original SVN directory I work in is inside a dropbox managed folder (don't ask!). Whilst I don't think this is a problem I feel I should mention it just in case it does have a contributing factor.
These .r??? files don't exist in my original source tree or SVN structure so can only be made by the SVN syncing operation done by Jenkins as far as I can see.
they look like conflict markers - when you merge, if it cannot automatically resolve the issue, it will put 2 temp files in the directory with the revision numbers as part of the file extension. You're supposed to use a diff app to decide what the final file should look like and then tell svn you've resolved the conflict. SVN will then delete the old temp files and let you commit your change.
Your commits will have garbage in them today - if you look at the file of the same name, you'll see diff markers embedded in the source. I'm surprised you can commit at all, but I guess the dropbox copy is somehow affecting the situation - are you committing deltas or just checking in the directory as if it was a bunch of new files?
Like others have said, *.rNNN are SVN merge conflicts, where NNN is the revision number that is in conflict. Again, like others have said, Jenkins must be the owner of the workspace, not something else.
Let me just try to clarify something here. You said "the original SVN directory I work in is inside a dropbox managed folder (don't ask!).". Are you saying that:
a) You are using a custom workspace for Jenkins (you would have had to muck around with custom workspace settings for that)
b) Your (user's) working directory is a dropbox managed folder
If b) is true, that's OK. But if a) is true, this may cause all sorts of problems. If this is the case, you really need to let Jenkins manage its own workspace. Yes, that may mean double the space-requirements, but this is the way it should be.
Now, assuming that Jenkins's workspace is managed by Jenkins, the first thing it will try to do is SVN Update. This should never cause merge problems (those *.rNNN files), unless something is modifying the workspace. Again, if point a) is true, consider giving Jenkins it's own workspace. The build itself could be modifying the workspace (I am not familiar with Android builds or what it does with files).
In either case, what you want is to do a clean SVN checkout. There are two options that will work for you.
Always check out a fresh copy
Use svn update is much as possible with 'svn revert' before update
Both of these are found in the job configuration, under "Source Code Management", under "Check-out Strategy".
The first will clean the Jenkins workspace and do a full checkout. This may be longer, but "cleaner".
The second will try to revert any local changes to the workspace before doing an SVN update, thus eliminating the merge conflicts.
AFAIK, the *.r### files are, like you suggest, when there is a conflict with what is being checked out. (I tried to find a good reference and didn't. I have seen them myself though.)
Since these usually happen when there is a conflict upon checkout, there are a couple of things I would look at for solving the issue.
Make sure that the files being checked out in your Jenkins workspace are not being modified. If they are supposed to be modified by the process, you might want to look at this answer to Force SVN checkout to overwrite.
Check the permissions of the directory vs. that of the user Jenkins is running under.
In general, Jenkins should be the owner and only manipulator of the workspace for any jobs it is running.
If I run my project this error will come build path problem how to solve this error.
error:
Description Resource Path Location
Type Project 'videothumb' is missing
required source folder: 'gen'
videothumb Build path Build Path
Problem
The project cannot be built until
build path errors are resolved
videothumb Unknown Java Problem
Can any one help me?
Try to clean project and if it still doesn't help close and then open project.
IF you are using eclipse then do as follows:
right click your project.
select build path-->configure build path.
update all the broken links in all 4 tabs.
Go to project-->clean [project will be found at top menu of eclipse.]
Clean your project.
Its done. For any further explanation comment on my answer.
Hope this helps.
Edit:
Here you go:
As you can see i'm at source tab of configure build path and i have only one folder here named ATalk/Src. likewise you can have number of folders.
Check for red cross mark on folder. if its there then your folder path is wrong means link is broken for that folder.
Same way you can check in Libraries tab. There you will find list of jars in your project. If any of them have red cross then its path is missing. So update all such red cross paths.
As you can see i dont have a red cross on my folder means it is at correct location.
Hope you get my point.
EDIT:
I just noticed that, according to your screenshot, the problem seems to be that the adb tool is not found. Now I might be wrong but I think that as of Android 2.3 (maybe even earlier) the adb tool is expected to be in [path-to-your-sdk]/platform-tools folder, not in the [path-to-your-sdk]/tools folder. The later path was used in earlier SDK's and your problem might be caused by such a simple thing that you have an outdated Android plugin in Eclipse.
OLD, IRRELEVANT ANSWER:
I've seen these kind of issues in Eclipse environments when I have some kind of error in my XML files. Malformed errors (that violate the rules of the XML structure) are often treated as "syntax errors" and are shown directly when you write them or when you try to build your application.
Other errors, however, like giving invalid references (giving a dimension where an integer is expected, for example) are not always highlighted with file name and failing line number (I'm not sure if this is bug in Eclipse's android plugin or even if it's a bug at all).
These kind of errors you'll have to hunt down manually and rebuild your project (as dcave555 sugested). This is really boring work if you have many XML files with many changes in
I think the path should look like this: /home/embdes/projects/android/android-sdk-linux_86
The problem is because of your Android build path settings. Try to check:
Window > Prefereces > Android > Build path
it should properly set to your Android SDK