[OFBIZ-9181] Failed to create parent directory

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 16.11.01, Release Branch 16.11
• Component/s: Demo, framework, Gradle
• Labels: easyfix

Environment

windows 10

• Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
• Reporter: Chuck Huddleston
• Created: 18/Jan/17 20:09
• Updated: 02/Mar/21 13:08
• Resolved: 02/Mar/21 13:08

Description

On a windows 10 pc I am trying to install OFBiz for the 1st time
All was good until this showed up:
Download https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/apache/xmlgraphics/batik-css/1.8/batik-css-1.8.jar
Download https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/apache/xmlgraphics/batik-util/1.8/batik-util-1.8.jar
Download https://jcenter.bintray.com/commons-beanutils/commons-beanutils-core/1.8.0/commons-beanutils-core-1.8.0.jar

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Could not create service of type TaskArtifactStateCacheAccess using TaskExecutionServices.createCacheAccess().
  > Failed to create parent directory 'C:\Program Files\apache-ofbiz-16.11.01\.gradle' when creating directory 'C:\Program Files\apache-ofbiz-16.11.01\.gradle\2.13\taskArtifacts'

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 7 mins 38.953 secs

C:\Program Files\apache-ofbiz-16.11.01>

Windows will not allow a directory starting with a " . " What should I do?