Android Emulator: Failed to pull selection

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Android 2.2 emulator. When I'm trying to pull a file from DDMS-file explorer, it says:

[2012-02-08 02:52:52] Failed to pull selection
[2012-02-08 02:52:52] (null)

Why and what to do with it?

score 150 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 10 '14 at 06:45

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You might have forgotten to re-select the device in the left pane. For some reason, it needs to be refreshed and the previous selection is invalid.

edited Nov 10 '14 at 06:45

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answered Mar 18 '13 at 17:37

George Nguyen

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Thanks! so simple but powerfull :) – numediaweb Sep 27 '13 at 23:41
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Not sure why this answer hasn't been accepted. It worked for me and judging by the votes it worked for a lot of others too – jamesc May 04 '14 at 15:01
I see only IP address of my device connected to my PC through Wifi in the left pane. Even after selecting it in the left pane, pulling did not work. Then I copied the database file to some other folder on the device and pulled it. It worked! I am using Juno version of eclipse. – mvsagar Jun 18 '14 at 06:14
Happy that it's useful – George Nguyen Nov 23 '14 at 07:45
Thanks! This also worked for DDMS launched via Android Studio 1.1.0 – user1207504 Mar 21 '15 at 12:03

score 32 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '12 at 09:30

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Restart Eclipse (Close and open it again). That would be sufficient.

answered Jun 05 '12 at 09:30

Ravi

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@Ravi This works, but restarting Eclipse for every occurrence is **REALLY** getting annoying. Why is this happening? – Roy Hinkley Oct 14 '13 at 14:36
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@AndroidAddict You can use command line to do a Pull. Follow this: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/186210-pushpull-from-emulator-in-eclipse/page__p__1091995entry1091995 (Make sure that android sdk tools folder is in your environment variable). This will make it less annoying :) – Ravi Oct 16 '13 at 06:11
@Ravi thanks for the link - appreciate it! Just an FYI, this is happening with a device, not an emulator. – Roy Hinkley Oct 16 '13 at 20:18

Mick · Answer 3 · 2013-07-01T09:30:00.043

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If you are using DDMS from Eclipse IDE this can happen if the device is not selected in the Devices window in the left pane of the DDMS view.

It seems the IDE can show you a menu of files in the right hand 'file explorer' window even if you have not selected a device. This can happen, for example, if you previously were using DDMS and then return to the view (possibly having restarted or disconnect the device - have not tested it in depth).

To solve this simply select the device in the left 'Devices' pane within DDMS - no need to restart Eclipse (Eclipse Juno).

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answered Mar 04 '13 at 13:27

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Clearly an Eclipse/DDMS bug. – rwst Jan 10 '14 at 09:57

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 27 '13 at 11:03

Maybe you don't have the permission to access the db file. E.g. you're working on a real device or androidx86 (I had this problem with androidx86 running on Virtaul Box)

One solution worked for me (on windows):

open cmd
browse to your adb folder with cd command (".../sdk/platform-tools/")
type in:
1. adb shell
2. su
3. chmod 777 data/.../database.db (folder containing the database file on your android device)

now it should work (maybe you have to restart ecplise)

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Try to reboot your computer. Sometimes the DDMS File Explorer doesn't respond.

Here more info.

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 07 '13 at 13:48

I have got the same error, then i certainly find that this error was due to the incorrect name of database,in my case

private static String DATABASE_NAME = "vpmsn.db ";

as you can see there is a space after vpmsn.db what actually was happening is that the database was being created successfully but as there is a space after the database name so when you try to pull the database the above error occured,hope this will help any one who is suffering from same error

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 06:11

just open your command prompt and navigate it to ur abd file location(D:\Apps\android\4.0.3\platform-tools) just type in the command prompt as adb install filename.apk it works fine without getting any errors... you should have to do this with ur emulator running otherwise it fails...

diego matos - keke · Answer 8 · 2015-06-12T15:02:44.540

First, grant permission to acces your data folder , with cmd to your C:\Users\pcjava\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe

In cmd Type 'adb shell'
su
Press 'Allow' on device
chmod 777 /data /data/data /data/data/com.yourapplication.package /data/data/com.yourapplication.package/*

Second, grant permission to your database.db that you are trying to pull

adb shell
su
root@android:/ # chmod 777 /data/data/com.ht.mt.siiv/databases/nameOfMyDatabase

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