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Reputation: 1196

cannot load settings .idea/workspace.xml

I am receiving the following error in my android studio project.

Cannot load settings from file
'C:\Users\user\AndroidStudioProjects....idea\workspace.xml': Error on line 3167: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity

I have looked at the line and nothing seems out of the ordinary

    <state vertical-scroll-proportion="0.8210526">
      <caret line="85" column="14" selection-start-line="85" selection-start-column="14" selection-end-line="86" selection-end-column="8" />
      <folding>
        <element signature="imports" expanded="true" />
        <element signature="e#2694#3007#0" expanded="true" />
      </folding>
    </state>

Upvotes: 6

Views: 16166

Answers (5)

Ram Iyer
Ram Iyer

Reputation: 1679

Just in case the above solutions didn't work for anyone, I just removed all the projects listed in the "Recent Projects" list on the Welcome to Android Studio, Clicked on "Open" button, navigated to my project folder and opened it and everything was working back again. Not sure if this is a one-off case. I use a MacBook Pro and Android Studio Chipmunk | 2021.2.2 Patch 1.

Upvotes: 0

chaserino
chaserino

Reputation: 314

This happened in both projects I had been working on in Webstorm 2020.3.3 after Big Sur update to macOS 11.2.3. It couldn't load any of the files from the projects' .idea directories.

I deleted the .idea directories and that fixed the problem... until I rebooted the next morning. Then it was the same issue. I checked permissions to make sure they matched my current user, but didn't help.

I then used ToolBox to uninstall and reinstall Webstorm 2020.3.3 and that fixed the issue.

I'll update this if it breaks again after reboot.

Upvotes: 0

miloss
miloss

Reputation: 1768

Happened to me also in my Flutter project, it was not enough to delete the .idea directory in the project root, I had to delete also .idea folder in android directory.

1- close the project

2- close Android Studio IDE

3- delete the .idea directory, but also android/.idea directory!

4- delete all .iml files

5- open Android Studio IDE and open existing project.

That's it, happy coding.

Upvotes: 0

eli
eli

Reputation: 9258

This problem sometime may happen when a current user doesn't have enough permission to access ./idea/workspace.xml file.

SOLUTION:

Go to your project root directory and run this command sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .idea/

Upvotes: 2

Harshad Pansuriya
Harshad Pansuriya

Reputation: 20990

In project/.idea you have broken workspace.xml file. you have to close Android Studio (Intellij IDEA), remove this file and start Android Studio. It will work..

Upvotes: 25

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