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Android/Eclipse PANIC: Could not open

I'm brand new to Android development and Eclipse so I have just set it all up and I am attempting the Hello World tutorial. Sadly when I try and run the program I get the following error:

PANIC: Could not open: C:\Users\Nathan Smith.android/avd/Droid_4.0.3.ini

I have heard that you should avoid spaces in these paths. Is the space in the name where the problem is? If so how do I go about changing it?

If anyone could help me out with this that would be grand.

By the way I also noticed that my SDK path is C:\Users\Asus Laptop\android-sdks\ should I change this to the same user? This was not intentional, is there an easy way of me changing this to the right user?

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Kingteeb Avatar asked Jan 25 '12 20:01

Kingteeb


4 Answers

This has been asked a few times already, try this:

  1. Create a environment variable called: ANDROID_SDK_HOME and set it to C:\Users\Administrator
  2. Open Eclipse > Window > Preferences and click in Run/Debug and String Substitution
  3. Add a new variable called: user.home and set it to C:\Users\Administrator
  4. Create an AVD and run it.
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Colin Pickard Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 03:09

Colin Pickard


A simple solution,

Create your avd with normal steps. e.g. avd name is Nexus_One. You will see Nexus_One folder and Nexus_One.ini file at D:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd

Copy Nexus_One.ini to C:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd

Try running avd through AVD Manager. It will start the emulator.

Reason being it works, if you read ini file, you will find path variable as below,

path=D:\Users\Nathan Smith\.android\avd\Nexus_One.avd path.rel=avd\Nexus_One.avd

So, when you start emulator, it check the ini and tries to start emulator from path mentioned in path variable.

Hope this solves your problem.

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Swaroop Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 04:09

Swaroop


Find the .android folder on your cpu. You can find it by going to Window -> Preferences -> Android -> Build, and see the "Default debug keystore:" path location.

After you find it, move the .android folder to your user root directory - which may be "C:\Users\Nathan Smith\" in your case.

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worked Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 02:09

worked


I had the same problem, but now its fixed.

Go to Windows in Eclipse, Windows->preference->run/debug->stringSubstitution-> add variable name as "user.home" Then the value will be your profile path Example: mine is C:\users\sriramk\.android

Now open the default .android path, copy the content, and paste that content into C:\users\sriramk\.android. Restart Eclipse and now the emulator will open.

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sriram Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 04:09

sriram