adb.exe wont start from intelliJ

Issue

I have the latests intelliJ ultimate installed.

I managed to install android sdk and was working fine with the emulator.

For various reasons I had to restart my PC. Now when I start intelliJ I get the following error message

ADB not responding. You can wait more, or kill "adb.exe" process manually and click 'Restart'
Errors from ADB:
adb: Unexpected exception 'Cannot run program "C:\Programs\Android \SDK\platform-tools\adb.exe": CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied' while attempting to get adb version from 'C:\Programs\Android\SDK\platform-tools\adb.exe'

Ive tried * deleting my .android folder in c:/users/{username} * restarting my pc and intelliJ again * turning off my firewall

I can seem to start it if I do

adb.exe start-server

Although if i do this and then start intelliJ then intelliJ says it cannot communicate with adb.exe and asks if I want to

• wait (if I do this nothign happens)
• restart (same error as above)
• cancel (means I have no adb so i cannot start the emulator)

Any ideas? Im really frustrated because I was really loving the android development but now are stuck at the first hurdle again

Thanks

Solution

I managed to fix this by removed the .intelliJ directory in c:\users\{username} and then starting intelliJ again.

This can be a bit time consuming so now I do the following steps

• open IntelliJ and set up all my config
• take a backup of .intelliJ directory
• code away :)
• if/when I get this error again I then delete my c:\users....intelliJ directory and copy the backup over

I can lose some config but not everything that I might have set up (eg sdks setups etc)

Answered By - RNJ