Ionic - cordova version error in initialization Windows 7 (Cordova is updated,admin mode)

Question

I am trying to get started with Ionic. I followed the instructions on the quick start and entered the following commands: (http://ionicframework.com/getting-started/)

npm -g install cordova ionic
ionic start Notebook blank

The tool is not able to create the project and stops with the following error message:

E:\Personal\projects>ionic start Notebook blank
Creating Ionic app in folder E:\Personal\projects\Notebook based on blank project

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip
[=============================]  100%  0.0s

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-starter-blank/archive/master.zip
[=============================]  100%  0.0s

Update config.xml
Initializing cordova project
Unable to add plugins. Perhaps your version of Cordova is too old. Try updating
(npm install -g cordova), removing this project folder, and trying again. (CLI v 1.3.16)

I have installed both cordova and ionic over again and am running in administrative mode.

I notice that the config.xml remains blank. Is that a problem?

This question is similar to: Cordova version error while using ionic to create new app although cordova is latest

But I was unable to resolve it with admin mode. And I am not even getting an error message.

Sven 31415 Sven 31415 · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17T14:34:55

I had the same error two weeks ago. Solution for me was to remove the Android SDK and afterwards a clean install of it.

After that i also did a npm install -g cordova ionic to be sure the SDK is linked correct.

Ionic - cordova version error in initialization Windows 7 (Cordova is updated,admin mode)

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