Azure Storage Emulator attempts to create LocalDB files in c:\Users

When I run this command:

AzureStorageEmulator.exe init -forcecreate

I’m getting this error:

Windows Azure Storage Emulator 5.3.0.0 command line tool Found SQL Instance (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB. Creating database AzureStorageEmulatorDb53 on SQL instance ‘(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB’. Cannot create database ‘AzureStorageEmulatorDb53’ : The database ‘AzureStorageEmulatorDb53’ does not exist. Supply a valid database name. To see available databases, use sys.databases… One or more initialization actions have failed. Resolve these errors before attempting to run the storage emulator again. Error: Cannot create database ‘AzureStorageEmulatorDb53’ : The database ‘AzureStorageEmulatorDb53’ does not exist. Supply a valid database name. To see available databases, use sys.databases…

In the log file I see this error:

2018-02-20 13:59:03.21 spid53 CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(Access is denied.) while attempting to open or create the physical file ‘C:\Users\alexbat.REDMONDAzureStorageEmulatorDb53.mdf’.

So it attempts to create C:\Users\alexbat.REDMONDAzureStorageEmulatorDb53.mdf rather than C:\Users\alexbat.REDMOND\AzureStorageEmulatorDb53.mdf (note the slash before the file name).

Do you know why? How can this be fixed? I was getting the same error with ASE 5.2.

[ndroussi-xo]

I tried to clean up localdb but didn’t work, so anyone has an issue running storage emulator with local db can benefit from this command to run it on SqlExpress.

Command: AzureStorageEmulator.exe init -server . -sqlinstance SQLEXPRESS -forcecreate

[erezvani1529]

Hi @abatishchev,

Please follow the steps that we have outline here and let us know if you still see any issues.

Thanks!