Error: runtime.tools.ctags.path file does not exist

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hello,

I have a situation. I am helping some guy with 4 custom PCBs. The PCBs have atmega328s and they need a software update via means of ICSP programming. I sent my programmer (which is just a board with atmega328 pre-programmed to act as ICSP programmer). The programmer works just fine.

Plan B exists out of programming by manually uploading a .hex file using AVRDUDE.exe from a batch file. Despite the upload seems succesful (judging on screendump), the target PCB seems not working anymore. (it was just fine before the 'update', so electrically and all, it is just fine.). All 4 target PCB's show the same behaviour. The .hex file is 100% identical compared to freshly baked one. So something in the upload process seems not working.

Ofcourse it could technically be that I made some error in the code. That is not the case this time. The behaviour is that strange that even I could not have caused this..

Anyways the problem of today is IDE related:

I want to fallback to plan A which is using the arduino IDE. But the good guy has this annoying, new to me, problem:
afbeelding

He had an older IDE version iirc 1.6.something. I let him download the latest 1.8.x version but the problem remained.

I just told him to delete the Arduino15 folder in the appdata folder and reinstall the IDE with the 1.8.x installer.

My question: is this likely going to work?

I cannot tell from this image what file the IDE cannot find in what folder? This bug is new to me.

Kind regards,

Bas

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It might. The missing ctags executable is bundled with the Arduino IDE 1.x installation at this subfolder:

tools-builder\ctags\5.8-arduino11\ctags.exe

The questions is: how it went missing from their previous installation in the first place. The most likely cause I can think of is that their antivirus/security software thought it was suspicious and quarantined the file. So if it just quarantines the file from the new installation then they will have the same problem. In that case, the solution would be to restore the file from the quarantine.

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This does not look like a problem with Avrdude, stk500 or Bootloader and hence your topic has been moved to a more suitable location on the forum.

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The advice to remove the Arduino15 folder followed by a reinstall of the IDE has worked! Happy customer.

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Thanks for taking the time to post an update with your findings @bask185. I'm glad it is working now.

Regards,
Per

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