gradle\2.10\taskArtifacts\cache.properties.lock (Access is denied) in Android studio

Question

Can someone please explain to me what this error means and how to resolve this cache.properties.lock error in android studio ??

Error:java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\lrana\AndroidStudioProjects\Umachi.gradle\2.10\taskArtifacts\cache.properties.lock (Access is denied)

C:\Users\lrana\AndroidStudioProjects\Umachi.gradle\2.10\taskArtifacts\cache.properties.lock (Access is denied)

Answer 1

had this problem on linux, the problem was that it was root owned.

sudo chown user:user -R ./2.2

in the ./gradle directory solved the problem

Answer 2

This sounds like it's related to https://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2795.

Try to to delete everything under C:\Users\Administrator.gradle\caches. There is a cache.properties.lock that is holding a global lock which is preventing you from running your script. Using MacOS you will find it in your home directory ~/.gradle/caches