21 "Libraries" repositories in My Documents

[Vadorequest]

Hi.

I use Windows 7 x64.
I installed Arduino with this exe: arduino-1.5.4-r2-windows
I have a loop of "libraries" repository in C:\Users\Me\Documents\Arduino

like this:
C:\Users\Ambroise\Documents\Arduino\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries\libraries

I tried to add Adafruit_Motor_Shield_V2_Library-master as library but I did it wrong I think and I shutdown the process while it was runnig (kill).

I uninstalled Arduino software but the repo is still here and when I delete it it is recreated automatically. (O_o)

I tried to see which process could do that but I don't know indeed.

Is it normal? xD

Thank you.

[Vadorequest]

I tried some other things. The only one which works is to use the IDE in antoher windows session.
Best program ever.

[ffissore]

If you delete folder C:\Users\Ambroise\Documents\Arduino\libraries\libraries is this recreated? Can you attach your preferences.txt ?

[Vadorequest]

Where can I find the file preferences.txt?
I'll try it but I think that yes it's recreated, I probably tried it first.

2013/11/14 Federico Fissore notifications@github.com

If you delete folder
C:\Users\Ambroise\Documents\Arduino\libraries\libraries is this recreated?
Can you attach your preferences.txt ?

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Cordialement,

M. Ambroise Dhenain.

[Vadorequest]

Okay, I think the problem is the path is too long for windows, He just
can't delete the folder. I'm trying to use something to kill this folder.

2013/11/14 Ambroise Dhenain ambroise.dhenain@gmail.com

Where can I find the file preferences.txt?
I'll try it but I think that yes it's recreated, I probably tried it first.

2013/11/14 Federico Fissore notifications@github.com

If you delete folder
C:\Users\Ambroise\Documents\Arduino\libraries\libraries is this recreated?
Can you attach your preferences.txt ?

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/1673#issuecomment-28502307
.

Cordialement,

M. Ambroise Dhenain.

Cordialement,

M. Ambroise Dhenain.

[Vadorequest]

I did it.

Using a .bat with this code inside:

@echo on

if _%1_==__ (
echo.
echo Usage: %0 folderpath
echo Deletes specified folder and all subfolders, even if the path depth
echo is larger than what CMD/Explorer will manage.
echo   folderpath - the folder to delete
echo.
goto end
)

setlocal

rem ** The full path of the folder to delete
set target_folder="%~f1"
set target_drive=%~d1

rem ** Create a temp folder on the same drive as the target folder (since moves within the same drive does not involve copying and traversing paths)
set tmp=%3
set del_temp_folder=nope
if {%tmp%}=={} set tmp=%target_drive%\temp_%RANDOM%
if not exist %tmp% (
md %tmp%
echo Will delete folder: %target_folder%
echo Will use temp folder: %tmp%
set del_temp_folder=yepp
pause
)

rem ** Create a prefix to use on moved folders to avoid name clashes
set i=%2
if {%i%}=={} set i=0
set /A i=%i% + 1

echo Level %i%, folder %target_folder%

rem ** Delete all files (non-directories) from the folder
del /Q /F %target_folder%\*

rem ** Move all subfolders to the tempfolder, and delete the now empty folder
for /D %%d in (%target_folder%\*) do (
move "%%d" "%tmp%\%i%_%%~nd"
)
rd /Q %target_folder%

rem ** Recursively repeat the above for all the moved subfolders
for /D %%d in (%tmp%\%i%_*) do (
call %0 "%%d" %i% %tmp%
)

rem ** Clean upp
if {%del_temp_folder%}=={yepp} (
rd /Q %tmp%
)

endlocal

:end

Using the command line

nameBatFile.bat nameFolder

In the cmd windows.

Final screen: http://imageshack.us/f/593/i57e.png/

Took about 5 minutes, 322 loop. So I had 322 folders libraries recursively...

Edit: By the way, thanks to the guy who wrote the script

[cmaglie]

@Vadorequest
may you provide the .zip of the library you're trying to install, so we can try to reproduce the bug?

[Vadorequest]

ZIP

But like I said, I shutdowned the application because it looked like frozen while it was loading the library. Maybe it's because of that.