Error loading project in Android Studio: cannot load modules

Question

When I Checkout a project form Google Cloud, Android Studio sais: \"2 modules cannot be loaded. You can remove them from the project\" and I cannot see the project. The erro

Answer 1

I had this issue in Android Studio 3.4 when I loaded an old project. I found some XML files in the .idea folder, including the file .idea/modules.xml.

It contained multiple tags, some of these were duplicates of existing modules but these had incorrect paths, in the fileurl attribute. I closed the project, deleted these duplicate tags, and reopened the project. This resolved the error for me.