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Hi All,
I was reading up on ADB and I noticed that the one thing most people complained about was not being able to find the platforms-tolls in the install directory. I was trying to search for the answer for the fun of it, but I give up. Any Suggestions?
 
I think the OP is talking about the typical directory structure of how the files/folders are laid-out when the Android SDK is installed/extracted.

Here's what my installation looks like:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Scary Alien>cd \
C:\>cd android-sdk-windows
C:\android-sdk-windows>cd platform-tools
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>dir adb*
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 843C-52A5

Directory of C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

09/14/2015 08:37 PM 458,077 adb-1032.zip
10/19/2014 09:11 PM 1,009,664 adb.exe
10/19/2014 09:11 PM 96,256 AdbWinApi.dll
10/19/2014 09:11 PM 60,928 AdbWinUsbApi.dll
4 File(s) 1,624,925 bytes
0 Dir(s) 300,312,240,128 bytes free

C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>
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So you can see, the adb.exe file lives in the platform-tools folder of the android-sdk-windows folder on my C drive.

Hope that's what you were asking about :).

Cheers!
 
scary alien said:
I think the OP is talking about the typical directory structure of how the files/folders are laid-out when the Android SDK is installed/extracted.

Here's what my installation looks like:



So you can see, the adb.exe file lives in the platform-tools folder of the android-sdk-windows folder on my C drive.

Hope that's what you were asking about :).

Cheers!
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So, the reason why anyone would not be able to find the platforms-tolls in the install directory would be because they would have go to into the android-sdk-windows folder on the C drive to look for it?
 
Lana30 said:
So, the reason why anyone would not be able to find the platforms-tolls in the install directory would be because they would have go to into the android-sdk-windows folder on the C drive to look for it?
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If you've got the Android SDK installed, then the platform-tools folder will be in the first level of the folder where the SDK was installed/extracted to.

It doesn't have to be installed in the C-drive...you can install it wherever you want--and some folks will be using a Mac or a Linux system, so the "C-drive" references are just for illustration purposes and for the benefit of the Windows users.

To read more about this, see this thread: https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=tools (be mindful that there's a LOT of other stuff in the SDK than just the adb utility, so the instructions at that link continue on describing stuff that the vast majority of folks (besides developers) will not need).

To get just the adb (and a few other utilities), look at our thread here to get the "mini SDK" package:

 
Slug said:
Iirc /platform-tools was relocated in the directory tree several SDK releases ago, so most confusion is probably due to old "How-To " guides not being updated.
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Oh, I see. So it the most current versions the platform-tools would be (If they have Android SDK installed), would be in the first level of the folder where the SDK was installed/extracted to? Like Scary Alien said?
 
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