Can't upgrade Android SDK Tools

android sdk installation
zmbq picture zmbq · Dec 19, 2011 · Viewed 39.8k times · Source

I'm trying to upgrade the Android SDK tools from revision 15 to revision 16. The update fails, claiming that a "folder failed to be moved":

Failed to rename directory C:\android-sdk\tools to C:\android-sdk\temp\ToolPackage.old01

I tried disabling my antivirus (as this problem has been reported by some people in 2009), and it didn't work. A fresh reboot didn't work, either. I'm encountering this problem on two different Windows 7 machines.

I did not encounter this problem upgrading from previous revisions all the way up to revision 15.

Anybody knows how I can circumvent this?

Answer

SERPRO picture SERPRO · Dec 19, 2011

Extracted from here:

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. make a copy of the tools directory and call this new directory tools2.
  2. DO NOT USE 'SDK Setup.exe'.
  3. Instead open up a cmd.exe window as administrator and run the following from this new tools2 directory (obviously the full path on your local machine will be different): J:\android-sdk-windows>tools2\android.bat update sdk

Basically, as noted before in this thread, 'SDK Setup.exe' invokes tools\android.bat, which makes it impossible for it to rename the tools directory thereafter. It's a bit goofy and should never have passed QA validation..

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