flutter doctor - The system cannot find the path specified [not a duplicate]

Question

weird behavior here

flutter doctor first prints two lines like :

The system cannot find the specified path
The system cannot find the specified path

but continues the work :

[√] Flutter (Channel master, v1.12.16-pre.35, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393], locale en-US)
[√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 28.0.3)
[√] Chrome - develop for the web
[√] Android Studio (version 3.5)
[√] VS Code (version 1.40.2)
[√] Connected device (3 available)
• No issues found!

the problem is when I run the app in vs code terminal stops and just says

The system cannot find the specified path

but android studio does the job with no problem

I need the live share feature in vs code , so I need this IDE to work too (unfortunately)

complete terminal log after I run flutter run in vs code :

The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
Launching lib\main.dart on LG M700 in debug mode...
Initializing gradle...                                                 -
Sending crash report to Google.
Crash report sent (report ID: 5e6da0b57190a836)
Initializing gradle...                                                 -Oops; flutter has exited 
unexpectedly.

   /Crash report written to C:\Users\H&M\AndroidStudioProjects\code_01\flutter_04.log;
please let us know at https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues.
       /

and yes %path% is set correctly for flutter sdk and bin folder too in both user and system variables

Answer 1

[Solved]

the problem was with the weird character (&) in the Windows Account Name (username)

Steps to resolve :

• since even after changing the username from the control panel , C:\Users\<"username"> folder's name won't change , created another user.

• made it admin.

• copied SDK folders to another Drive so that IDE could access them without admin permits (even opening IDE as admin didn't give admin privileges to it's terminal smh).

• now VSCode works perfect like AS.