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Asked: 2026-05-27T17:02:33+00:00

I’m trying to upgrade the Android SDK tools from revision 15 to revision 16.

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I’m trying to upgrade the Android SDK tools from revision 15 to revision 16. The update fails, claiming that a “folder failed to be moved”:

Failed to rename directory C:\android-sdk\tools to
C:\android-sdk\temp\ToolPackage.old01

I tried disabling my antivirus (as this problem has been reported by some people in 2009), and it didn’t work. A fresh reboot didn’t work, either. I’m encountering this problem on two different Windows 7 machines.

I did not encounter this problem upgrading from previous revisions all the way up to revision 15.

Anybody knows how I can circumvent this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Extracted from here:

    INSTRUCTIONS:

    1. make a copy of the tools directory and call this new directory tools2.
    2. DO NOT USE ‘SDK Setup.exe’.
    3. Instead open up a cmd.exe window as administrator and run the following from this new tools2 directory (obviously the full path on your local machine
      will be different):
      J:\android-sdk-windows>tools2\android.bat update sdk

    Basically, as noted before in this thread, ‘SDK Setup.exe’ invokes
    tools\android.bat, which makes it impossible for it to rename the
    tools directory thereafter. It’s a bit goofy and should never have
    passed QA validation..

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