Arduino IDE (Win10) crashes when I launch the program

Question

My Arduino IDE (ver 1.8.12 on Win10) crashes when I launch it. Running the arduino_debug.exe I get this error message.

C:\\Program Files (x86)\\         


        

Answer 1

It also happens on Manjaro linux. In my case removing the folder .arduino15 solves the issue, but I have to remove it every time I open arduino IDE

rm -rf ~/.arduino15/

Win10 folder location:

%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local