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When I try to 'Check for updates' in Android studio I get the following message:

"You already have the latest version of Android Studio (Preview) installed."

I am on 0.5.2 and the newest version listed here http://tools.android.com/download/studio/canary/latest is 0.5.4. I have canary builds selected when checking for updates. Any ideas?

odiggity
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  • possible duplicate of [Removing Ignored Android Studio (or Intellij) Update Builds](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17474412/removing-ignored-android-studio-or-intellij-update-builds) – Scott Barta Apr 14 '14 at 16:57
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    Yes, thank you! This is the answer, I must have ignored and forgot I hit ignore. It might be a duplicate but it's probably still worthwhile leaving this one here as searching on the error message doesn't turn up anything in google. – odiggity Apr 14 '14 at 17:40
  • Have had the same issue, and this post did help me in finding why it didn't work! I already knew about the ignored builds stuff and all, but haven't thought about it when I had this issue. Definitely posting it as an answer, as I think it could help some people! – Léo Lam May 13 '14 at 16:36

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As Scott Barta has pointed out in a comment, this is because you have ignored the update, so it won't ask you if you want to update to it anymore.

The solution is simply to quit Android Studio, then edit its other.xml file, and replace the myIgnoredBuildNumbers block with the following one:

<option name="myIgnoredBuildNumbers">
  <value>
    <list size="0" />
  </value>
</option>

other.xml is located under your Android Studio config directory:

  • For Unix: ~/.AndroidStudioPreview/config/options/other.xml
  • For Windows: %HOMEPATH%\.AndroidStudioPreview\config\options\other.xml (basically the same as the Unix path)
  • For OS X: ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudioPreview/options/other.xml

See this question and its answer for more information.

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    In more recent versions, this setting seems to have been moved to updates.xml in the same folder as other.xml. – tvkanters May 12 '16 at 15:23
  • Possible. I haven't verified this because I haven't had this issue recently, but feel free to edit that into the post. – Léo Lam May 12 '16 at 17:05
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    newer version has a "View ignored updates" when you receive this "already have latest" popup (at the bottom of it), just clean/remove the versions in the list and try again \o/ – Tarcisio Wensing Dec 08 '17 at 13:09
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Go to Preferences > Updates and clear out the versions listed in the View/edit ignored updates section:

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