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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Getting Started with Android Setting Up an Android Development Environment for Windows

Posted by daviddavis3
daviddavis3
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What's the workaround for the "path too long" error when extracting the android-studio-bundle-windows zip file?

I am extracting ("extract all") the android studio zip file. I get this error when the extraction is about 75% done. I am extracting from the downloads folder in Win8.1.

daviddavis3
daviddavis3
4,904 Points

I think I got my 7Z extractor to work. The default extractor (?) in Windows 8.1 had the fail error.

3 Answers

daviddavis3
daviddavis3
4,904 Points

The best way to avoid this error is to avoid the default extractor (WinZip?) and use 7Z extractor instead. 7z did not have the long file name error.

Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman
14,626 Points
Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman
14,626 Points

Hey, David. I'm probably too late to the party on this one, but I just encountered this error as well. I work mostly on a Mac these days, and only go to a PC occasionally for testing. I found the fastest, easiest workaround for me was to extract the folder to my c drive. Just right click on the folder, click extract all, then, as your destination, find your root folder. I'm on Win 8, so mine was called "Windows8_OS". By extracting all files to this folder, your path name is cut down by like around forty characters.

Ricky Sparks
Ricky Sparks
22,249 Points
Ricky Sparks
Ricky Sparks
22,249 Points

Try to have a folder that stores all your development related work and dont keep it in the downloads. Had this problem a few months ago I moved the file because it was to deep in many folders.