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I am running Android Studio on OS X Yosemite. I am trying to simply delete an AVD from Android Studio AVD Manager. Every time I attempt to delete it I get the message "The selected AVD is currently running in the Emulator. Please exit the emulator instance and try deleting again." The problem is that the emulator is NOT running. I even closed down all the studio and rebooted the computer. It still says the same thing. Anybody seen this before? I would really like to remove the AVD.

Be answered 18/11, 2014 at 23:3 Comment(0)

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Search for *.lock folders under .android folder and delete those. This should tell Android studio that the AVD is not running.

Reannareap answered 18/11, 2014 at 23:56 Comment(8)

I'm very new to Android Studio. Where would I find the .android folder? – Be 19/11, 2014 at 0:20

@Be I'm actually not sure on Mac. It should be under your personal folder, or you can run a search on your computer. – Reannareap 19/11, 2014 at 2:1

Ok, I found them. The .android folder is in the my home directory. The lock files are in <home>/avd/<avd name>.avd/. That did it. Thanks. – Be 19/11, 2014 at 2:20

@Be actually are you running Android studio version 0.8.14? I think I actually got the instruction to remove the locks when it warns "The selected AVD is currently running in the Emulator". – Reannareap 19/11, 2014 at 4:20

Yes, I'm running 0.8.14 and that was the error I was getting. Removing the .lock files allowed me to finally remove the AVD. – Be 19/11, 2014 at 4:26

Searching for *.lock in Windows Explorer in .android doesn't work. You need to search for lock. Deleting the lock directories does fix the problem. Thanks. – Specter 2/1, 2015 at 20:13

For mac users : $ ls ~/.android/avd/ – Whilst 7/3, 2017 at 4:25

I have the same problem, but it's not letting me delete those files because it says it's in use. – Polymerism 20/5, 2020 at 18:28

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To delete any android emulators (and thereby stop them, if they have been running in the background of the system) close Android Studio and go to the following folder:

%userprofile%\.android\avd

(e.g. C:\user\username\.android\avd )

Delete all the files and folders inside it and restart the IDE.

Now when you open the Android Studio Device Manager it will ask you to create a new AVD.

Congelation answered 18/3, 2015 at 6:56 Comment(3)

It helped me. Thanks – Jenks 19/5, 2017 at 10:2

Thank you so much. This should even be marked as an answer. – Italia 4/12, 2022 at 7:44

Android Studio is really is a pile of garbage if this is how you have to restart things. – Hoxha 10/1, 2023 at 14:33

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On Android studio go to: Tools > Device Manager, on the action column you can delete your device

Thanh answered 10/3, 2017 at 14:28 Comment(0)

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Steps

1. Go to AVD Device Directory

$ cd ~/.android/avd/<Device_Name>.avd

2. Delete *.lock files

$ rm *.lock

Example

$ cd ~/.android/avd/Pixel_5_API_31.avd
$ rm *.lock

Zackzackariah answered 18/4, 2022 at 2:39 Comment(0)

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For Linux users:

Go to the .android folder (it should be in your home folder, ctrl+h to show hidden files), go to the avd folder (cd ~/.android/avd from the command line). Delete whichever avd you want to. Then restart Android Studio.

Driscoll answered 4/3, 2015 at 5:56 Comment(1)

You will also want to delete the associated .ini file in the directory. If you don't the device will still show up in AndroidStudio devicemanager, but of course won't run. This may be a new thing that is required (I'm running AndroidStudio Android Studio Dolphin | 2021.3.1 – Gradate 16/9, 2022 at 21:57

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For those asking about the location of .android folder. I found mine at this path

C:\Users\<Your_UserName>\ .android

then you will find an avd folder. This folder contain the *.lock files StoneBird talked about.

Lap answered 22/2, 2015 at 21:45 Comment(0)

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I had an issue were I couldn't delete the files in the folder located at:

C:\Users[your_comp_name_goes_here].android\avd[your_emulator_device]\hardware-qemu.ini.lock

You cannot delete this file even if you close AndroidStudio and some other bug sending programs that didn't even close after you close AndroidStudio

There is a file called 'pid' inside the hardware-qemu.ini.lock folder that you can open up with notepad and it gives you the number of the process number. Go into task manager>Details tab>order by PID by clicking on the columb>search for the PID>end process; The process name should be something like quemu?????.exe I think.

After that, your AndroidStudio will no longer be locked. Maybe you could of solved it with a restart too.

Cochabamba answered 30/5, 2017 at 4:14 Comment(0)

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Using command line, first lists all avd's and then you delete using the avd name, by example:

avdmanager -v list

avdmanager -v delete avd -n "android-26"

Fading answered 19/5, 2019 at 15:46 Comment(0)

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In Linux/*nix and OSX:

Find the .android folder in your $HOME directory.

1) In .android there should be a avd folder 2) In the avd folder should be one or multiple .ini file and a corresponding *.avd virtual device folder. 3) Delete both the .ini file and the .avd folder you want to get rid of. 4) Return to the Android sdk and AVD manager.

Allmon answered 8/4, 2016 at 13:34 Comment(0)

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A lot of people are perhaps not able to locate the '.android' folder easily. The easiest way to detect this folder and in turn the avd location is to click on the dropdown button next to the avd listing for each indiviual avd item in AVD Manager in android studio and selecting the "show on disk" option

Dramshop answered 27/5, 2021 at 15:13 Comment(0)

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Find the process

ps -eaf | grep avd

Kill it

kill -9 <process id>

Addicted answered 17/2, 2021 at 6:30 Comment(0)

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For Mac users, to delete an AVD (Android Virtual Device) that won't delete in Android Studio, first navigate to this folder using finder /Users/YourUsername/.android/avd , select the AVD and delete, then refresh Android Studio.

Dyslalia answered 29/4, 2023 at 19:10 Comment(0)

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Click on avd manager icon when window opens there is drop down arrow on clicking it a drop down menu will open in that click the option view system file now left click on file click on data then delete pidgin file.

Cabala answered 29/12, 2017 at 9:9 Comment(0)

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Go to AVD manager and select emulator which gonna be delete an press OK For more information https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds

Corps answered 13/10, 2018 at 13:43 Comment(0)

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On Android studio go to: Tool > Android > AVD Manager, on the action column you should click to "Stop" and after that you can delete that device

Envoi answered 8/1, 2019 at 16:41 Comment(0)

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Currently in AVD Manager it's also possible just to click Stop and will do it for you.

Then you just play the emulator again.

Superdominant answered 8/8, 2019 at 5:2 Comment(0)

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if you are using linux distro

aseztak@kalyan:~$ top

find adb pid

Then you kill the PID you found (replace 1334 with the PID you found):

aseztak@kalyan:~$ kill 1334

Sceptre answered 8/4, 2021 at 6:20 Comment(0)

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Recent versions of Android Studio on windows may place the avd folder in your C: directly.

C:\Android\.android

You can look for avd folder in here if you can't find it in the home directory,

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.android

(Yea, you can directly paste this in the address bar, windows understands.)

After getting to the avd folder, as others have said, delete the *.lock folders or delete the folder with the name of avd which is causing issues, refresh the avd manager using the refresh button at the bottom right and then delete the avd from the avd manager.

Snowwhite answered 26/1, 2022 at 6:52 Comment(0)

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The issue is Android Studio didn't pick the command and shows xx Device is running in the background. The only solution is to delete the Emulator manually.

Select tools from the upper options of Android studio, select the SDK Manager, and delete the emulator from there. It will work for sure.
After deleting from SDK Manager, now delete the Emulator from Device Manager and it will get vanished in matter of seconds.

University answered 26/2, 2022 at 14:7 Comment(1)

This question was answered 7 years ago. The poster was asking how to remove specific AVD files and not the entire emulator. If it was a workaround for specific version of Android Studio, consider adding those information in your answer. – Heather 27/2, 2022 at 6:49

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For mac users- go to this folder - and delete the specific device file -

to show hidden files use this - ctrl + shift + .

Graycegrayheaded answered 21/8, 2022 at 8:37 Comment(0)

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I had to close Android Studio and then restart it. The dialog box saying to delete the "multiinstance.lock" file couldn't be done because it was locked down.

Heartbreaker answered 22/12, 2022 at 22:3 Comment(0)

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For Ubuntu users:

Go to the .android folder (it should be in your home folder, ctrl+h to show hidden files), and go to the AVD folder (cd ~/.android/avd from the command line). Go to the directory of the AVD you want to delete and remove the .lock file. Then try deleting the AVD from Android Studio.

If that doesn't work, delete the AVD directory and restart Android Studio.

Loudhailer answered 13/4, 2023 at 7:13 Comment(0)

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The easiest way to fix a corrupt emulator on a Mac would be to do so :

open your terminal and type "open ~/.android/avd" (That should open the folder with all your emulator files.
Delete the .ini file and the folder for the corrupt emulator.
Restart Android studio.

That should fix it. Worked for me!

Dung answered 8/9, 2023 at 18:21 Comment(0)

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I ran into a weird issue where only the .ini gets deleted when deleting from the AVD Manager, so it no longer shows on the list. The .avd folder will remain though, which takes up the most space.

I was only able to find out where the .avd path was by looking at the error log found here: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\AndroidStudio[version]\log\idea.log

%userprofile%\.android\avd was where anything that should have been deleted can be done so manually.

Ogren answered 21/12, 2023 at 19:32 Comment(0)

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If you're not founding the .android you can restart your computer and the emulator will stop. So you can delete the AVD :)

Halinahalite answered 23/6, 2020 at 13:20 Comment(0)

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