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Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error XARDF7023: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'MediaSessionCompat_OnActiveChangeListenerImplementor.class'. at System.IO.Directory.DeleteHelper(String fullPath, String userPath, Boolean recursive, Boolean throwOnTopLevelDirectoryNotFound, WIN32_FIND_DATA& data) at System.IO.Directory.Delete(String fullPath, String userPath, Boolean recursive, Boolean checkHost) at Xamarin.Android.Tasks.RemoveDirFixed.RunTask() 0
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Does this error come from a new project or an existed project? If this issue comes from a new project, update your VS to the latest version and click the Repair selection in the VS installer. If this issue comes from an existed project, please share related code or a simple demo to reproduce this issue.
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I was banging my head around for quite a while and figured out that you cant have any spaces or special characters in the path to your project
For example: C:/abc xyz/ProjectName/... is unacceptable because there is a space between abc and xyz.
I don't exactly know why but this works for me
Hope it helps!
Happy coding!
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This! You saved me from desperation on my finals week.
I just changed the file directory to the repo and worked like a charm!
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Did you ever resolve this? I’m now getting the same after I updated my Visual Studio for Mac to 8.9.1 (Build 34). Seems to only happen for Android projects.
In Visual Studio for Windows, I went to Tools: Get Tools and Features and on Visual Studio Community I selected "More" and did repair.
I also went Android SDK Manager and did any updates.
Lastly I went into NuGet Package Manager and updated.
Doing all three of these fixed my problem.
Good Luck!
Thanks for your sharing.
I am now getting this error again.
I have the most current Visual Studio that I did repair, updated Android SDK Manager, and updated NuGet.
What can I do to Fix???
I find that on Mac there is a work around to create a specific directory. There may be a similar work around on Windows, but I can’t say for sure.
For anyone finding this post, this was the problem I had.
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/issues/5722
The work around was to ensure that the directory ~/Library/Android/sdk exists, even if it is empty.
I just need to find someone to tell me what the Windows directory needs to be.
Yeah, sorry I can’t help you there.