Unable to clean project in Android Studio

Question

OS version: Ubuntu 14.04 LTE 64 Bit

Java JRE/JDK version: Oracle JDK 1.8.0_11

Project directory is on a NTFS based drive.

Whenever I try to clean my

Answer 1

I'm not on Windows, but OS X. Somehow my build folder didn't have the proper permission for AS to delete the file so I did chmod -R 777 in the affected parent directory.. probably 777 isn't what you would want but it worked for me.