title: How to solve "Your Android SDK is missing, out of date, or corrupted"?
body: <p>I needed to free up some disk space so I deleted my <code>C:\ADT</code> folder because I assumed it was from my old android eclipse days.  Now when I open android studio it says &quot;please provide the path to the android sdk&quot; with a link that takes me to the android studio dowload page.  The only down load items I see there are android studio and sdk tools.  I've tried uninstalling / reinstalling android studio, but the problem still persisted.  I've also tried downloading <code>sdk-tools-windows-3859397.zip</code> from that the android studio download site but android studio didn't recognize the sdk when I pointed it to the extracted contents with &quot;The selected directory is not a valid home for Android SDK&quot;</p>
  <p>When I click on &quot;SDK Manager&quot; icon in android studio, It opens, but when I check anything to download, it says &quot;Your Android SDK is missing, out of date or corrupted.  Clicking &quot;Open SDK Manager&quot; opens literally the same window again.</p>
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  <p>Also possibly relevant:  I have to install Android Studio as a different user (with admin rights) than the user that I use to run Android studio.</p>