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Android Gradle build fails from cached files

I am trying to build one of my android libraries and everytime I get the following:

> Task :app:mergeDebugResources FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> Multiple build operations failed.
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/0d92c5dbe3682b4fd3af323bb8f4fc81/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/c9e81cc37c2c0c47883b955549c67149/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/a60e256c2ccb687ca2c3dc1173bab875/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/a31caec1a4d16ac05a41b0f552f96191/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/9d3aed6b3e5d40e0d4373af6f3e198dc/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/f9c01a9d9c0a59b69c3974ffcd3c9cee/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/4d9724e0450bfaa483db25a04db0eb48/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/a79286d8497b8365dabe35ac25780fe4/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/2896cf3b957b3724a2dcfcee68be211f/results.bin
      java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/2896cf3b957b3724a2dcfcee68be211f/results.bin

with about 200 more lines of the same

I've tried Invalidate Cache and Restart from android studio and I've tried rm -rf ~/.gradle/caches but I continue getting the same error. I am able to build the exact same library on my other computers - I just can't get it to work on one machine in particular. Is there any other thing I might be missing that could cause this?

Solution

  • Okay so I finally managed to get it to work...

    Had to run rm -rf ~/.gradle instead of just rm -rf ~/.gradle/caches which I guess forced it to reinstall all the gradle things and then the build worked

    UPDATED

    To save time, no need to delete the entire .gradle folder, you just have to stop the gradle daemon first. Check below answer from @SpaceBison