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While I was updating Android Studio to 4.0 my pc shutdown a and after that when I launched the android studio I got the the following error.

missing essential plugin error message

I have tried this solutions but it is not working Android Studio 4.1 Canary 9 201.6466190-linux distribution corrupted?

m02ph3u5
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fiza
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  • Have you tried reinstalling? ... – m02ph3u5 May 29 '20 at 13:39
  • not yet but reinstalling is a hectic process.Isn't there any alternative other than reinstalling – fiza May 29 '20 at 13:40
  • Shouldn't take you more than a couple minutes. You don't have to reinstall emulators and SDKs, just the IDE. Maybe backup and move your prefs, though. – m02ph3u5 May 29 '20 at 14:39
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    Does this answer your question? [Android Studio missing essential plugin org.jetbrains.android](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61682609/android-studio-missing-essential-plugin-org-jetbrains-android) – UkFLSUI Aug 05 '21 at 14:59

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On Mac:

Go to: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudio4.X

Delete:disabled_plugins.txt

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The plugins you should not disable : Kotlin, Smali Support, Gradle, Groovy, Properties, JUnit, IntelliLang. Also you may not disable Layoutlib Native and Layoutlib Standard. If you disable these, Project View - Android would be stuck loading...

This problem may be due to disabling plugins. This list is found by trial and may not be correct. (Tested on Android Studio 4.2, Windows 10)

If this problem occurs even you didn't disable these plugins, please follow this answer for deleting disabled_plugins.txt and try again. https://stackoverflow.com/a/61913060/14180528

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If anyone has the same problem in Linux, the directory is in the following path :

~/.config/Google/AndroidStudio2020.3/disabled_plugins.txt

Just open the disabled-plugins.tx file, Delete the line org.jetbrains.kotlin, Save and you are good to go

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This situation, usually happens after you disable some essential plugins and restart the Android Studio.

For MacOS, Use following commands to reset Android Studio's configure files:

rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio*
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.android.studio.plist
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Logs/AndroidStudio*
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/AndroidStudio*

For windows, I don't know the commands, but you can try to delete the following file:

C:\Users\admin\.AndroidStudio4.0\config
LQMIKU
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  • Sorry, doesn't work for me, as I don't have .AndroidStudio4.* or some folder like that under C:\User[MyAccountName]\. For my situation, should find out `disabled_plugins.txt` file from C:\Users\[MyAccountName]\AppData\Roaming\Google\AndroidStudio4.1, you can only remove the plugin which causes this problem from this text file or just remove this file if you cannot indicate which plugin is the real problem. – Capt. Michael Feb 27 '21 at 05:35
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Check the link here, pay attention to this filePath: ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio4.0/disabled_plugins.txt

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