Spark 1.6-Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path

Question

I know that there is a very similar post to this one(Failed to locate the winutils binary in the hadoop binary path), however, I have tried every step that was suggested and

Answer 1

you can try set the HADOOP_HOME environment variable to:

C:\Users\GERAL\Desktop\hadoop-2.6.0

instead of

C:\Users\GERAL\Desktop\hadoop-2.6.0\bin