Failed to crunch file - Gradle tasks failed

Question

I'm new using android studio and programming on android and I'm getting this error:

Information:Gradle tasks [:app:generateDebugSources, :app:mockableAndroidJar, :app:prepareDebugUnitTestDependencies, :app:generateDebugAndroidTestSources]

Error:Failed to crunch file C:\Users\alexa\Documents\Projectos\Blueprint Apocalypse\Mobile Application\Blueprint_App\MyApplication\app\build\intermediates\exploded-aar\com.android.support\appcompat-v7\24.2.1\res\drawable-xhdpi-v4\abc_list_selector_disabled_holo_light.9.png into C:\Users\alexa\Documents\Projectos\Blueprint Apocalypse\Mobile Application\Blueprint_App\MyApplication\app\build\intermediates\res\merged\debug\drawable-xhdpi-v4\abc_list_selector_disabled_holo_light.9.png

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'. Error: Failed to crunch file C:\Users\alexa\Documents\Projectos\Blueprint Apocalypse\Mobile Application\Blueprint_App\MyApplication\app\build\intermediates\exploded-aar\com.android.support\appcompat-v7\24.2.1\res\drawable-xhdpi-v4\abc_list_selector_disabled_holo_light.9.png into C:\Users\alexa\Documents\Projectos\Blueprint Apocalypse\Mobile Application\Blueprint_App\MyApplication\app\build\intermediates\res\merged\debug\drawable-xhdpi-v4\abc_list_selector_disabled_holo_light.9.png

How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

Unfortunately the problem here is with the path of the project.

Please move it to short path, like - C:\Users\alexa\Documents\YourProject.

I had this problem before and it worked after moving project location to a short path.

Weird but only workaround I know.

Answer 2

Clean project.

Build > Clean Project 

Another option is goto build.gradle in project section and downgrading the gradle version

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:x.x.x'
}