My Arduino IDE has suddenly developed a peculiar problem.It takes a long time to load up & when I tried to upload or verify a Sketch the whole OS freezes.

Mine is 32 bit Win 7 OS .I tried updating Java ,updating MS Windows Update, but didn’t help.While the OS hangs there is no action of mouse,keyboard.I couldn’t even open the Task manager.

Then I tried replacing the USB cable & even I replaced the UNO board with Mega.Unbelievably  the problem persisted even after restoring my Windows to an earlier point.

Finally I got a simple solution for this problem.

Apart from the installation folder inside Program Files , there is a folder named Arduino inside MyDocuments folder to store your Sketches.

This is the path to the sketches folder

C:\Users\Username\MyDocuments\Arduino

 

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I renamed the folder to Arduino_old & re launched the IDE.

 

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The IDE reported that the sketchbook folder is missing.On clicking OK ,I could see a new Arduino folder created automatically.

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I then copied the Sketches inside the old folder to the new one.

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Surprisingly the IDE worked smoothly.

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Solution to Arduino IDE Problems

 

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