Icon files causing gradle build fail in Android Studio on OS X using Google Drive

Question

For a college course, I am required to use a Google Drive folder as my project location. The problem is that Google Drive makes my hidden OS X Icon files appear.

When I

Answer 1

These are the solutions we developed, based on Hod's answer.

Getting rid of all current Icon files

1. Open a terminal window in the parent folder to your projects.
2. To look for Icon files, execute: find . -name Icon\*
3. If you get any results, execute: find . -name Icon\* -delete

Automatically removing future Icon files

1. Open a terminal window in the parent folder to your projects.
2. Copy and paste in this incantation ( (adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/9625233/631051), which will delete Icon files every minute: (crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "*/1 * * * * find . -name Icon\* -delete") | crontab -

To undo, enter the following incantation (adapted from https://askubuntu.com/a/719877/43296) in a terminal window (in any folder): crontab -l | grep -v Icon | crontab -

Assumptions

All of this assumes that you have:

• no files whose names start with Icon in your projects hierarchy that you want to keep.
• no cron jobs involving Icon that you want to keep.