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Postponed means that the issue was either a feature request or something that requires major refactoring on our side. Since that makes the issue not actionable in the close future we choose to close it as Postponed and add it on our internal roadmaps and technical debt pages instead.

Postponed

Votes

10

Found in

2017.1.1p4

Issue ID

962313

Regression

No

"Build failed with errors" error when trying to build while a Build is already running

Themes

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To reproduce:

1. Download attached project "New Unity Project.zip" and open in Unity
2. Build & Run the project.
3. Run application and while the application is running, Build & Run the project again.
Note: You get the following useless error message:

"UnityEditor.BuildPlayerWindow+BuildMethodException: Build failed with errors.
at UnityEditor.BuildPlayerWindow+DefaultBuildMethods.BuildPlayer (BuildPlayerOptions options) [0x001b9] in C:\buildslave\unity\build\Editor\Mono\BuildPlayerWindowBuildMethods.cs:162
at UnityEditor.BuildPlayerWindow.CallBuildMethods (Boolean askForBuildLocation, BuildOptions defaultBuildOptions) [0x00050] in C:\buildslave\unity\build\Editor\Mono\BuildPlayerWindowBuildMethods.cs:83
UnityEditor.BuildPlayerWindow:BuildPlayerAndRun()"

Notes:
- This issue appears on Windows and OSX
- Obviously, the issue is that it's trying to overwrite files that are in use, but it needs to actually say that
- On Unity 5.6 it does not say anything
- On Unity 2017.3 in Console, it prints "Build completed with a result of 'Canceled'"

Reproduced on Unity 5.6.4p1, 2017.1.2p2, 2017.2.0p1, 2017.3.0b7 and 2018.1.0a2

Comments (3)

  1. juanitogan

    Dec 18, 2018 07:19

    It may make sense to "postpone" this issue... but, on the other hand, "Build completed with a result of 'Canceled'" is the message when the files are locked for any reason, and this is not a very helpful message for discovering that.

  2. UNITY3D_TEAM

    Mar 15, 2018 09:35

    same problem for me also

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