Android Studio not letting me change SDK Location

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I open up Android Studio. Then I open up SDK manager. I have the most up to date version but, I need Android 6.0 for my SDK platform. It doesn't even let me click anything.

In this image you can see the text and check boxes are discolored. I can't click anything inside the SDK Platform, or even the the Tools and update sites. I can't check the box "Show Package Details". You can see a screenshot bellow.

I have installed and changed it sucessfully on another laptop of mine, but I can't get it to work here.

That is the thing, I can't install the packages in while in my SDK manager — Aleka, Apr 05 '17 at 11:01
I installed sdk manager with Android Studio. Do I have to install the stand alone sdk manager, if so can you provide a link? If i use the stand alone will i have to change SDK location? — Aleka, Apr 05 '17 at 11:05
and you may also want to try to run Android studio itself as Admin, maybe that what causes it to be disabled ! — Atef Hares, Apr 05 '17 at 11:08
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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '17 at 11:04

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Your sdk path has problem.The sdk path you provided has whitespace.Remove that and reset path again.Rename your path to remove whitespace.set something like "C:\Users\Tarique_Shams\AppData\Local\Android\sdk".

answered Apr 05 '17 at 11:04

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Is there an easier way to doing it than uninstalling and reinstalling in a different directory? – Aleka Apr 05 '17 at 11:09
Just rename your path.Rename your folder from Tarique Shams to Tarique_Shams or TariqueShams. thats it. – DkThakur Apr 05 '17 at 11:10
I thought I couldn't changer a User Account folder? – Aleka Apr 05 '17 at 11:17
What do you mean by this?i can't understand. – DkThakur Apr 05 '17 at 11:18
I don't have a rename option when I right-click the folder. I was doing some reading and found this: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_security/rename-user-account-folder-in-windows-10-preview/88033eca-6b32-47c5-90ac-a5e7af17d094 – Aleka Apr 05 '17 at 11:21
I will try to fix this my reinstalling and setting up in a different directory. – Aleka Apr 05 '17 at 11:22
it means you are not the admin of the system then ask admin to rename this. – DkThakur Apr 05 '17 at 11:22

Viral Patel · Answer 2 · 2017-04-05T12:17:50.573

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Open Command Prompt
Switch to users directory - cd c:\users
Type dir /x and hit Enter
See the short name for your user directory "Tarique Shams"

Example of where you'll see it (highlighted in yellow are the short names for directories with white spaces in the name):

For your directory "Tarique Shams" it should be TARIQU~1 (But, cross check with the dir /x command)
Replace "Tarique Shams" in the path with TARIQU~1
Save! You are good to go now.

In short: Your path should be something like this:

C:\Users\TARIQU~1\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

edited Apr 05 '17 at 12:17

answered Apr 05 '17 at 12:02

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this is what i see: – Aleka Apr 05 '17 at 12:14
did you put `/x` after `dir` – Viral Patel Apr 05 '17 at 12:16
second last column (highlighted in yellow above) will show you the short name. You can just use the path I've given at the end of the answer. – Viral Patel Apr 05 '17 at 12:18
I see, but when I go and try to change it, it reverts it back or doesn't change Tarique Shams to TARIQU~1 – Aleka Apr 05 '17 at 12:37

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

The problem was I had a white space in my SDK location. To solver it you can change folder name as DKThakur mentioned. In my case I couldn't because it was a User Account. I then tried solving it by using the short name as AndroidMechanic posted. I ran into some complications and just ended up reinstalling Android Studio and the SDK completely after deleting it completely from my computer including and local data. I installed it in another folder with no white spaces. Both DKThakur and AndroidMechanic posted solutions that work, but this is how I did it.

Here is a link to another post of how to completely develet android studio and sdk from your machine: How to completely uninstall Android Studio from windows(v10)? .

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