Failed to crunch some files Android Studio

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Recently I migrated an eclipse project to Android Studio and I am now getting following error when building project

AAPT err(Facade for 170558904): libpng error: Not a PNG file
Error:Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
Some file crunching failed, see logs for details

By following various questions related to this, I renamed all .9.png to .png. It is not even showing filename which is showing error. How can I figure out which file is having that issue

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30764604/execution-failed-for-task-appmergedebugresources-crunching-cruncher-png-fa and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29026024/errorexecution-failed-for-task-projectnamemergedebugresources-crunching — IntelliJ Amiya, Mar 15 '16 at 08:58
earlier they were .9.png but I read that making them .png can work — Vivek Mishra, Mar 15 '16 at 09:00
@IntelliJAmiya I have read your answer and other related post already and tried everything from that but it is not working. Earlier it was showing that the following file has some problem but now it doesn't even show which file is having error — Vivek Mishra, Mar 15 '16 at 09:01
Yeah .I got notification.Whats your gradle version ?? any alpha version ? — IntelliJ Amiya, Mar 15 '16 at 09:03
i mean `classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.0.0-beta2'` ?? — IntelliJ Amiya, Mar 15 '16 at 09:08
i guess `beta6` buggy . Is there any problem with `beta5` or `beta2` ? — IntelliJ Amiya, Mar 15 '16 at 09:11
with 1.5 I am getting this warning for files other than .9.png `AAPT err(Facade for 247064166): C:\svn\ficcistudiocode-template\codebtrunk\Cebit_ficci2\SmartCrm\app\src\main\res\drawable-xhdpi\bubble_shadow.png: libpng warning: iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited` — Vivek Mishra, Mar 15 '16 at 09:16
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31495147/android-studio-libpng-warning-iccp-not-recognizing-known-srgb-profile-that-h — IntelliJ Amiya, Mar 15 '16 at 09:17
@IntelliJAmiya can we convert 9png to normal png properly either online or using some tool? — Vivek Mishra, Mar 15 '16 at 10:08
@IntelliJAmiya I was trying and able to remove one error.Now it doesn't show not a PNG file error but I still have some crunching failed error. How I can see the logs which that error says — Vivek Mishra, Mar 15 '16 at 10:20
Possible duplicate of [Execution failed for task 'app:mergeDebugResources' Crunching Cruncher....png failed](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30764604/execution-failed-for-task-appmergedebugresources-crunching-cruncher-png-fa) — Heberth, Jan 26 '17 at 16:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '17 at 15:46

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The best solution is changue la buildDir in build.gradle:

working for me.

For example:

allprojects {
    buildDir = "C:/tmp/${rootProject.name}/${project.name}"
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

Rebuild and happy coding.

answered Jan 26 '17 at 15:46

Heberth

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my problem was not due to project path. It was due to bad png files. – Vivek Mishra Jan 26 '17 at 16:32

Failed to crunch some files Android Studio

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