Under W10, starting the IDE finishes by declaring that there is an error creating the sketch directory, and no file can be loaded. Nothing can be done since then.

Error creating the sketch directory

shaell May 2, 2021, 5:07pm 9

Fixed. It seems a directory concatenation was preventing the IDE from starting correctly.

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