Errors While Starting Studio

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Overview

Occasionally you may experience errors starting Studio. Here are some suggested solutions.

Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one

This can happen as a result of an improper shutdown of Studio. To resolve the issue, you need to delete a .lock file.

1. Delete the file %WORKSPACE_PATH%/.metadata/.lock, and restart Studio

An Error Has Occurred

These are errors pop up a dialog box, asking you to look at a log file

See the log file /Users/....

Open the log file at the specified location. If you see messages like:

It is caused by this bug in Eclipse, most likely due to a case where Studio quit or was closed unexpectedly, corrupting a particular file.

Steps to fix:

1. Copy your whole workspace first, so that you are not risking your original files when you attempt these steps
2. Delete the file %WORKSPACE_PATH%/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.snap, and restart Studio

This will start Studio, but your workspace will most likely be missing your projects. This is okay--you can quickly reimport them

1. File > Import > Existing Projects....
2. Select the workspace directory from above, and finish the wizard

Launching the Studio with -clean

If Studio does not appear to work properly, you can try and launch it with a -clean option.

1. Follow the instructions here for adding a launcher argument.
2. Add -clean to the launch arguments for Studio or Eclipse.

How to stop Studio from loading a problem file

A file might be causing trouble when Studio is restarted because it is very large or in some way corrupted. There are a couple of ways you could prevent Studio from loading the file.

• Rename the problem file. This means Studio can no longer find it and so will ignore the file on restart.
• Delete the <studio_workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.ui.workbench\workbench.xml file, where the state of workbench when exiting is saved. This means Studio will not preload any files that were open on the last exit.