Fix Android Studio Corrupted Project Workspace Settings

I had this problem for a while and was able to solve it myself.

If in opening your project in Android Studio and something similar to this error message pops up:

Cannot load settings from file (C:\Users\User\AndroidStudioProjects\ProjectName\.idea\workspace.xml): Error on line 1: Content is not allowed in prolog. Please correct the file content.

It probably means your project workspace settings file is corrupted by whatever reason and Android Studio could not read it. Mine is probably because of BSOD, because Windows.

To solve the error, just delete the workspace.xml as specified in the error message. It is ok to delete it since you probably already lost all your custom workspace settings when the file got corrupted and you will never be able to save new workspace settings unless you fix the corrupted file. After deleting it, the next time you open your project in Android Studio, it will try to look for the workspace file, and if it can't find it, it will just create a new valid one.

I hope this helps! :)

Step 1 :Exit Android Studio.

Step 2 :Delete workspace.xml file found in the \ProjectName\.idea\ directory.

Step 3 :Run Android Studio again.

On a Mac, I found File > Invalidate Caches/Restart did the trick.

on a windows 8.1, I found File > Invalidate Caches/Restart did the trick

I have encountered similar problem many times, and there just one thing that can be done to solve this.

Just delete idea folder.

I would like to suggest restart Android studio File > invalidate caches and restart... > invalidate caches and restart option before deleting workspace.xml

if restarting android studio fail to solve your problem, kindly run check disk from disk properties because I notice that this error is raise due to file indexing / file system error or sometime permission denied by OS.

Just Delete idea folder ..

Thank you.

in Terminal navigate to your project directory, and run these

rm -rf .idea
rm *.iml

then go into your app directory and do that same thing as above.

Finally, "File" -> "New" -> "Import", this should solve the corruption.

Just delete .idea folder from project directory an re run android studio. it worked for me.

I am using Android Studio 4.0 I solved this by:

1. Deleting .idea folder in the Project

2. Restart Android Studio

Done :)

I have encountered similar problem many times, and there just one thing that can be done to solve this.

step 1 : delete the .xml files containing error, or cut and paste to some backup folder if you want to inspect that file later on. However, it's unlikely that you'd find anything.

step 2 : try to open android studio after having deleted those files, it must be running perfect. if it doesn't and still contains errors try 'invalidate catches and restart' option in file menu.

I just deleted the workspace.xml after closing the studio and started again. It works fine.

Since for me didn't worked to delete the file i just override the actual workspace.xml with the one i had on backup directory of my project. Now it works.

Had Today the same Problem, but i found a "workspace.xml" with something like "jpt_tmp" at his end, in the same directory. After swaping the "tmp" once with the original, i got everything back to work.

I tried many options but finally for windows 10, File > Invalidate Caches/Restart worked for me.

I guess the problems depends on each situation. I was using Flutter in Android Studio and suddenly one day this problem occurred.

Just delete the project_name.iml in Flutter project and project_name_android.iml in android module.

For android projects simply delete .iml file in the project.

After deleting restart Android Studio and follow the steps as in this video. It was of great help.

Sorry for delay response, I also came across this scenario, so tried to resolve it using many way available on internet which include

1. invalidate cache and restart
2. restart android studio
3. deleting *.iml file
4. restart system

The only solution worked for me is, I export my project into zip format and then I open it from there. The project open and build successfully without any problem.

I hope this will help for you.

In my case it was iml file which was corrupted, so i deleted it, restarted android studio, pasted the same file as it was before, restarted android studio and everything was working fine.

A gradle sync did the trick for me.

Just press the button from the toolbar named "sync project with gradle files". The icon is an elephant with a little blue arrow.

If it still does not work, try deleting the .idea folder first, before syncing the gradle files again.