Android Studio doesn't find the adb

Question

After my Anti Virus program deletes my adb.exe file out of the folder:

C:\\Users\\Moritz\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\Sdk\\platform-tools

I can not run my Android projects, cause this file is missing.

I tried to copy this file back into this folder but the access is blocked by windows. I have admin rights. What can I do? Can Android Studio download this file again?

Answer 1

To make sure you don't encounter issues due to folder overwriting you may want to delete previous

{InstallationPath}\\Android\\Sdk\\platform-tools

Open the SDK manager in the Android Studio , switch to SDK tools tab and and select/install the Android SDK Platform-tools.

Also, just to make sure antivirus doesn't mark that file again , you need to whitelist that entire folder with you antivirus system

For more details on installation/download refer to the answer here:- Error:Unable to locate adb within SDK in Android Studio