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Problem with uploader
Jun 25th, 2018 at 6:14pm
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I have installed Visual Micro for VS 2017 and the build works fine except the uploader. I am getting an error in the output window in VS that says "The system cannot find the file specified". the path to nrfutil is valid and if I go to a command line and execute the command the uploader works fine. It also works fine from the Arduino IDE. I noticed in the path to the nrfutil.exe command there is a mix of forward and backslash characters as well as a space in the path. In the parameters to the command there are ~ characters for parts of the path longer than 8 characters which looks like they are being forced to 8.3 format. 

I can't believe that what I am seeing is not a common problem but it must be something I'm doing wrong because I haven't been able to find other users with the problem as well as a specific solution for the problem yet.

I have tried all combinations of bootloaders and programmers to no avail.
  
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Re: Problem with uploader
Reply #1 - Jun 25th, 2018 at 6:26pm
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switch on vmicro>compiler>verbose and also "show build properties". then try the upload and copy the output into a .txt file. Then email the file to info[at]visualmicro.com with link to this post or attach it here
  
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See attached file
  
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Reply #3 - Jun 26th, 2018 at 5:42pm
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Thanks for the file. The build works ok for me. I suspect one difference is that your "c:\users\[name]" has spaces in the folder path. For this reason Visual Micro defaults to 8.3 short file names which the adafruit core might not be handling correctly.

Please add the following line to board.txt in your local project then click Save

upload.8dot3=false

Does the upload work okay with this change?
  
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Reply #4 - Jun 26th, 2018 at 10:13pm
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No difference. I've attached the log
  
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Reply #5 - Jun 30th, 2018 at 11:39am
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Any thoughts?
  
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Reply #6 - Jun 30th, 2018 at 4:31pm
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Sorry forgot to come back to you

You need both of these in board.txt

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upload.buildpath.8dot3=false
upload.8dot3=false



don't forget to click save after editing board.txt because vs auto saves after the build

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Some board defs do not have quotes around the file names. In this case your user folder in windows would be an issue because it has a space between your first name and last name. In this case the build used to break quite often so we defaulted to 8dot3 which is always valid on windows.

Unfortunately some some programs, such as nrfutil.exe, don't work fully on windows so we have to disable short file names for some cores. I will add this to the next release for ntf boards but the above settings give you similar solution.
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Reply #7 - Jun 30th, 2018 at 6:09pm
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Still a problem although the path for the zip looks OK now. I think it's the path to nrfutil that has the space in it that is the still the problem. See attached file.
Is there a way to move the location of the arduino packages that the adafruit tools are in? I already made the arduino IDE install folder be under the root folder but that didn't change where the packages for adafruit are located. Still puts them under the user folder, where the space shows up.
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Reply #8 - Jun 30th, 2018 at 6:29pm
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If you create a folder called portable under the arduino ide then both visual micro and arduino will use the portable folder instead of appdata\arduino15

You can copy/move arduino15 into portable if you want all your downloaded (contributed) packages.

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In visual micro you can set the Contributions Folder under "tools>options>visual micro" which overrides the portable and appdata areas.

I am not sure why you still have a problem I will try a contributions folder with spaces in when I get a spare mo
  
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Reply #9 - Jul 2nd, 2018 at 9:30am
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Moved arduino15 into portable and reloaded Adafruit library and I'm now able to upload and debug. Looks like there is a problem with spaces in the path to nrfutil.
Thanks for all of your help. I'm able to single step my code in the debugger and everything seems fine.
  
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Reply #10 - Jul 2nd, 2018 at 11:34am
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