Can't upgrade Android SDK Tools

Question

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-sdkools to C:android-sdkempToolPackage.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?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8559682/cant-upgrade-android-sdk-tools

Answer 1

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>tools2android.bat update sdk

Basically, as noted before in this thread, 'SDK Setup.exe' invokes toolsandroid.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..