I've often seen this error on Windows 7. I blame Windows. What's happening is that the SDK manager is trying to download the zip file to a temp directory, but it doesn't have write access to the directory. In turn, this is because permissions enforcement in Windows 7 is draconian. Unless one is the top level administrator for the machine, one doesn't have write access to C: \Program Files (x86). One has *installation* access but not write access.
The workarounds are: - if you're the top level administrator, give yourself write access to the highest-level directory you can. - if you're not, try giving yourself access to C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows and its subdirectories. You can do this by right-clicking on the directory folder, selecting Properties, and then selecting the Security tab. You'll probably see that the folder is set to be "read-only". Unset that and try the operation again. Unfortunately, you have to do this for each file you download. - Get the administrator for your machine to log in to it and install the SDK for you. On Feb 3, 10:19 pm, alainr345 <alainr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I followed the instructions and installed JDK6 then Eclipse 3.6 then > Android SDK 9 then Android APT. That seemed promising until I got to > the Samples step. Downloading the Android sample code through the SDK > manager (and there is no other way on Windows) does NOT work (not on > Windows 7 at least); the messasge is: > > "Downloading Samples for SDK API 9, revision 1 > File not found: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\temp > \samples-2.3_r01-linux.zip (Access is denied)" > > Or similar with all the other versions, Personally, I won't follow the > individual links to each sample, it's too cumbersome. So could you get > your act together please folks... > A.R. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
