Android Studio Update: Some conflicts found in installation area (studio.exe | uninstall.exe)

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When I start Android Studio, it shows popup regarding new update of 1.1 release. But when I start updating, After downloading all patch files, while restarting, it shows following error:

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I searched almost everywhere on Google and Stackoverflow. There are already two questions on so: this and this. But none of them are have any correct answer. I also tried running as administrator, restarting PC, turning off the firewall, uninstalling antivirus. But none of them worked.

I am using windows 7 32-bit. How to solve this problem? Can anyone help?

The dialog says that these two files were modified. Did you touch them somehow, or do you have some sort of antivirus (or a virus!) that modified them? The only solution may be a clean reinstall. — Scott Barta, Feb 18 '15 at 18:51
@No I never touched them before. I use avast as my antivirus and it isn't possible that virus attacked those files. I didn't have this kind of issue previously. And also there are many people on the internet talking about this issue. Shouldn't you guys fix it asap? — Krupal Shah, Feb 18 '15 at 20:01
Although it is not a solution. You can download Android Studio without bulky SDK tools from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Other. It is almost 200mb download — Abdul Rauf, Jun 07 '15 at 15:52
https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/index.html#3-0-0 As per release "macOS users: If you are updating an older version of Android Studio, you may encounter an update error dialog that says "Some conflicts were found in the installation area". Simply ignore this error and click Cancel to resume the installation. " — Mohsin Khan, Oct 26 '17 at 05:04
Let's see, finally, nobody knows what is going on in the background ??:: — , Apr 09 '18 at 11:31

score 36 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '17 at 21:53

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I know this is an older question but I encountered the same error while updating SDK components in Android Studio 2.3.3. I was able to fix the problem by starting the SDK manager and un-checking the components that showed the error and clicked "Apply". That un-installed just that component. When it was finished, I re-checked the component and clicked "Apply" again. When it was finished, the problematic component was updated to the newest version. This was much quicker than doing a full un-install/re-install as stated in one of the solutions above.

Hope this helps someone.

answered Aug 02 '17 at 21:53

Zoccadoum

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Thanks, I had the same issue while updating the Intel System Images in Android Studio 2.3.3. This provided a quick fix. – Justin Fiedler Sep 12 '17 at 00:24
This is probably the cleanest way to fix this problem. – digiwizkid Nov 07 '17 at 10:03
In MacOS try: "cd /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/ && ls -la" in a terminal; check for the file/folder that is troubling the install process and delete it. – Nicky Kouffeld Mar 27 '18 at 01:17
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@zoccadoum How do you start the "SDK Manager?" – Pete Alvin Dec 07 '19 at 10:10
The SDK manager in Android Studio can now be found under the "Tools" menu (Studio version 3.5.2) – Zoccadoum Dec 14 '19 at 01:06
Didn't help me. Reinstall Android Studio on macOS much easier and faster. – Valentin Yuryev Jul 28 '20 at 07:38

score 30 · Answer 2 · answered May 05 '18 at 08:27

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This is another option, it is not much easier than reinstalling but at least you don't have to worry about your settings getting lost

Go to help->about and note the version you currently have installed
Download zip file for your current version at https://developer.android.com/studio/archive
Manually overwrite conflicted files with files from zip
Update normally

answered May 05 '18 at 08:27

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This worked fine for me and someone on my team on Windows and Mac, we needed to recover the original copies of the JRE security policy files. – Clayton Sims Jun 19 '18 at 16:08
Great solution. Thanks – Red wine Apr 19 '20 at 06:01
It would be better if you downloaded new version from https://developer.android.com/studio/archive and uninstall last version then install the new one. – Parisa Baastani Oct 08 '20 at 07:49
It worked flawlessly! For me, the error seems to have appeared due to trying to fix this error with JRE/JDK: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/265713286 However, after being able to update I had to reapply again the fix to the issue, which might break the next update again… – Guillem Poy Feb 07 '23 at 08:08

Elias Fazel · Answer 3 · 2023-03-16T13:01:15.040

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I hade same on Android Studio Electric Eel Patch 1

Android Studio Update: Some conflicts found in installation area

but with uninstall.exe. I just deleted that file from android studio directory and updated successfully.

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answered Mar 03 '23 at 12:53

Elias Fazel

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Honestly sounded like an odd solution to delete the uninstaller manually, but it work!!, Thank you – Jamal S Mar 17 '23 at 09:03
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I had the same thought. And yes it worked! This should be the answer. – Daniel Connelly Mar 23 '23 at 05:39

score 13 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 18 '15 at 15:36

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I had a similar problem on some other files and could not figure it out.

You should download the last Android Studio version and remove the old one.

answered Feb 18 '15 at 15:36

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I think it should have some other solution. Wait if anyone have answer. – Krupal Shah Feb 18 '15 at 15:38
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I was also looking/waiting for a fix but it is just faster to download the newest version. That worked for me. – Suragch Mar 03 '15 at 04:57
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its not a real solution. – M. Reza Nasirloo May 01 '15 at 15:55
@Suragch Do you recommend completely uninstalling the previous version before installing the newer version? Or just add/install the newer version? – AJW May 10 '18 at 22:11
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@AJW, I use the Ubuntu Linux version so I didn't have to uninstall anything, though I may have renamed the old folder to something else as a backup. I guess I just recommend the hacker's method: Just keep trying things until something works. I would definitely try Zoccadoum's answer below first. – Suragch May 11 '18 at 07:03

Aditya Naique · Answer 5 · 2015-11-22T03:56:09.267

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It appears like the only way to bypass this error and successfully update Android Studio is to uninstall and reinstall it.

Before uninstalling, make a backup of your IDE settings through File | Export Settings.
Download the "No SDK tools included" exe from the Other Downloads section. Avoid using download accelerators as they often mess up the downloads from https://dl.google.com .
In the Install Wizard, you may uncheck to update AVD if you use Genymotion and don't need Google's Android emulator.

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answered Aug 01 '15 at 06:09

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I followed these steps, but it was easier than mentioned. No need to uncheck anything, no SDK will be uninstalled. Also, no need to take any backup, it'll be done anyway. – Hamzeh Soboh Nov 21 '15 at 14:18
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You're right. They have removed the option to delete SDK from the uninstall wizard. It's much safer now. Also, no need to move the settings.jar backup from its default location. I'll update my answer. – Aditya Naique Nov 22 '15 at 03:51
Didn't work for me with Arch Linux, installed from AUR. Guess I'll have to wait for an update from AUR instead. – Velizar Hristov Aug 22 '16 at 17:43

Haomin · Answer 6 · 2019-12-18T16:24:29.580

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Use the JetBrains Toolbox for Android Studio update, problem solved. No need to mess with the file permissions. Especially on company devices.

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answered Sep 04 '19 at 14:44

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https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/download/ but it simply downloads the new version and deleted the old one automatically – Vaiden Oct 08 '19 at 16:30
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@Vaiden, yeah, but it allows you to import everything from the old version to the new one. I don't know if I'm missing something here, but I think every custom config is imported – Haomin Oct 09 '19 at 21:14
nice, that helped me a lot! – Rainmaker Feb 07 '21 at 16:29
it doesn't recognize android studio! – Elias Fazel Mar 03 '23 at 12:56
Hi Elias, I think I experienced the same thing when installing the toolbox for the first time (long time ago). I had to download an Android Studio via toolbox first and then later updates were taken care of – Haomin Mar 13 '23 at 17:14

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 18 '19 at 06:29

I had this issue on Ubuntu 18.04 when tried to update Android Studio from 3.4 to 3.5 version. I have changed Android Studio directory's ownership to my user:

sudo chown -R <username> /opt/android-studio

It resolved all but one errors for me, because I still had a jre/bin/java - Access Denied error, which I have resolved by killing its process:

# The second column of this command's output is PID.
ps -aux | grep /opt/android-studio/jre/bin/java

kill <PID>

score 2 · Answer 8 · answered May 16 '19 at 13:21

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It might also happen that you need to logout and and re login as admin user in your system.
Update the Android studio [in admin user].
Re login as a previous user.

answered May 16 '19 at 13:21

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 13 '17 at 14:16

You should check the JDK Location settings, which appears be changed on every Android Studio update, with commands ctrl + Alt + Shift + S (to reveal the Project Structure menu options, and uncheck the Use embedded JDK and find your current JDK Location, on windows machines, you can see that location on environment variables JAVA_HOME.

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered May 18 '17 at 07:11

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There is a workaround, try deleting or moving the files that are causing the conflicts to another folder when the Update starts NOT BEFORE! That worked for me.

answered May 18 '17 at 07:11

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score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Jan 11 '18 at 04:15

I know this is a very old question, but I face this issue almost every time I try to update my studio. Only solution I know which works for sure is clean install of studio....which is time consuming. So the solution is when you get to know the name of the file, search the location of that folder containing specified file. Check if that folder has lock icon on it, if it has then change the sharing settings to everyone and share the folder. If it does not have the lock icon on the folder check if it is in read-only mode. This worked for me hopefully someone finds this useful. Cheers.

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Jun 15 '19 at 04:48

I had a similar problem. What I did was to make sure of the whole folder's ownership. For some reason, some files where owned by root, so I changed it to my ownership. In linux you can use the followoing command on the Android Studio folder:

sudo chown yourusername:yourusername -R android-studio-folder

I just tried again and everything updated successfully. Hope it helps!

score 1 · Answer 13 · answered Jul 10 '19 at 15:55

The only solution worked for me is I have reinstalled Android Studio the latest version without uninstalling manually it and when starting the installer it asked me to uninstall and said that your settings will not be lost so I checked the uninstall and everything went smooth without any problems and got the latest version installed and all my settings the same.

score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Sep 03 '19 at 18:43

I had this symptom when updating from Android Studio 3.4.2 to 3.5.

In my case, the affected file was plugins/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin/kotlinc.

The cause turned out to be that while the file's contents had not been modified at all... the Unix permissions bits on it had been.

Specifically, this was a file that comes as non-executable, and I had at some point chmod'd it to executable (because it should be) in order to use it from the command line.

The fix was to set those permissions bits back, with chmod:

$ chmod a-x /PATH/TO/android-studio/plugins/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin/*

This probably isn't a super common cause for this symptom, but hopefully it will be helpful to someone else. :-) I certainly didn't remember making that change, though once I spotted it I know exactly why I made it.

Thanks, this was exactly my issue but with another property that I changed and needed to revert now :) — android_dev, Feb 11 '22 at 17:28

score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Jan 26 '18 at 07:04

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You can found the files in the android-sdk folder, and delete those files, and check your permission of the folder(android-sdk, build-tools, tools), if your can write, and download again.

I solve the issue.

answered Jan 26 '18 at 07:04

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score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Nov 21 '19 at 17:54

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I had the same error when upgrading from 3.1.x to 3.5.x. What worked for me was downloading the new Android Studio image from https://developer.android.com/studio and installing it (when asking me if I want to replace the old version I said yes). Everything seems to work fine now.

answered Nov 21 '19 at 17:54

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This has been suggested in a few of the other answers already, so I'm not sure why it needs posting again. – DavidW Nov 21 '19 at 18:19

score 0 · Answer 17 · answered May 29 '20 at 14:11

I also had the same error when upgrading from 3.5 to 3.6, I managed to solve this without losing any sdk platforms and virtual machines in avd by installing the latest version of android,First Export the settings and then delete the two folders ".AndroidStudio3.x" in home directory and the "android-studio" in /usr/local or /opt directory, then download the zip file of latest version of android studio and move the "android-studio" folder to /usr/local or /opt. Now run the /android-studio/bin/studio.sh and import the settings,Now Latest version will be installed.

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Jan 08 '21 at 11:15

I got this error when I was trying to upgrade Android Studio using a different user account to the account that installed Android Studio (the account had admin privileges). When I switched to the account which installed Android Studio I was able to upgrade without this problem happening.

score -1 · Answer 19 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 06:34

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I have had a similar issue and solved it. Some documents were encrypted by the software installed on my PC, so updating to Android Studio 3.6 was not possible (in fact every update I have the same issue).

To solve it, just find those files in the Android Studio installation folder (probably Program Files/Android) and decrypt it. After that, you should be good to go. I hope it helps!

answered Mar 03 '20 at 06:34

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What do you mean by decrypting it? – Teekam Suthar Oct 13 '20 at 06:34
I mean to decrypt it using the encryption software. In my case, the .doc file was encrypted for protection using DRM. – Robert Popa May 06 '21 at 09:20

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