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ValueError: storage dir path cannot contain spaces, please specify a path with --storage-dir

See original GitHub issue

Does anyone have any insight into this error?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/home/pl/python-for-android-master/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 1035, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/pl/python-for-android-master/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 1031, in main
    ToolchainCL()
  File "/home/pl/python-for-android-master/pythonforandroid/toolchain.py", line 536, in __init__
    self.ctx.setup_dirs(self.storage_dir)
  File "pythonforandroid/build.py", line 105, in setup_dirs
    raise ValueError('storage dir path cannot contain spaces, please '
ValueError: storage dir path cannot contain spaces, please specify a path with --storage-dir

Python 2.7 with updated buildozer and p4a. Build for Android

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ghostcommented, Dec 13, 2018

Does your user name / home folder path contain a space character by any chance?

1reaction

Petar-Luketinacommented, Dec 13, 2018

@JonasT you lead me on finding the issue! It was actually the folder that my app was in. I named it App: Blind. That was a first… 😂 Thank you kindly!

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