This app can't run on your PC

Software IDE 2.x
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Good day to all

I have been working on a project for a few days. Today I upload program to my three ESP32s. (one at a time). I do the first one in the IDE, then copy the command and run it in CMD window. I got an Access error. so i retried in the IDE. Then out of nowhere i get a windows error "This app can't run on your PC". I have had this happen before IDE ver 1.X. The esptool.exe will not run. Looking at the EXE the size is zero. easy fix i just copy the file over the old one and it works.

So just wondering if someone knows why, or if it's happened to others.

Thanks for your time.

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You may have mistyped some command line input. If you had an exact log of your entries then it might be possible to reproduce the errors.

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Not with the IDE but yes, I have done what @DrDiettrich said.

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DrDiettrich, I copied the line from the output of the project. Opened 'command prompt' [admin] and pasted it. this is what i got.

arduino-001
arduino-001979×512 14.6 KB

the file size of 'esptool.exe' was zero bytes. Just don't know how this can happen. I do have a gift at finding weird things.

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We should know what you did before, to resize esptool.exe.

People like you are welcome in software QC departments. We had such a guy at our institute, and as a final test we gave him a phone call and very often our program crashed immediately.

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I will try to reproduce.

thank you

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