How to fix "couldn't follow symbolic link" in Android Studio?

Question

I'm now running an Android App project on Windows and running into the condition

Error:Could not list contents of 'D:\source\App\src\main\res\drawable'. Couldn't follow symbolic link.

after did the clean build.

Android Studio states the drawable file is a broken symbolic link.

I just check other related post online but still cannot figure out what does that mean, why is that happened, and how to fix it. Can anyone help to give me a clue to fix it?

Toscana

Answer 1

Still do not know the real reason but problem solved by re-checkout source. Clean build did not work so I guess there's just something wrong in the project build-up steps.

Toscana

Answer 2

Next time to save time you can run the following command:

find . -type l -exec test ! -e {} \; -delete

Sadler

Does this delete all broken symbolic links? – Tess

and run this in your app base, not android folder :D – Brood

I don't know what I could do without this. Thanks... I believe this should be marked as answer – Gaw

Answer 3

I have always resolved this issue by using unlink followed by the path where it's not finding symbolic link.

example: unlink ./bin/uuid

Amoeba

Answer 4

Removing .bin did not work, but rm -rf node_modules && npm install did the trick.

Bosom

Please be careful with posting extremely similar answers. #46270786 Consider flagging as duplicate.... – Bigelow

Answer 5

Navigate to node modules folder of particular package, and delete the .bin folder

Eg:

Task :app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets'.

  Could not list contents of '/home/centillion/Documents/CMC/cmc-mobile-repo/node_modules/react-native-image-slider/node_modules/.bin/flow'. Couldn't follow symbolic link.

For this case, navigate to node modules/react-native-image-slider/node modules and delete .bin folder and rerun. NOTE: To view hidden folders, press CTRL + H

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