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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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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!
Hoping LeonLu-MSFT can.
Do you mean this path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk ?
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That seems like a reasonable parallel to the Mac ~/Library/Android/sdk.
I found a path like this screenshot.
I did not have this folder and I added it.
That path is already in existence on my computer so apparently not the problem.
I am currently trying a different solution with a short file path for the project to see if that fixes the problem.
I recreated this and other projects with a very short file path.
I updated to Visual Studio 16.9.2
I am not sure which of these two fixed the problem but I am successfully creating Android projects using Xamarin Forms in Visual Studio again.
It's a great day!