Another one of these lovely errors.

I've been wrestling with this for about a day now, and after some thorough forum lurking, googling, and hair pulling, have gotten no closer to solving the issue.

 

I am trying to setup forge so I can start modding. I've downloaded the latest version, 10.13.1.1217 (and have also tried with several of the earlier versions, with the same result.)

 

I am running Windows 7 Professional 64bit.

I've got Java 7 and the SDK setup. I had Java 8 installed, but I uninstalled it. The PATH and JAVA_PATH system variables are setup correctly.

I extract the contents of the Forge SRC zip to a new folder. Then I open up the console, and enter

>gredlew.bat setupDecompWorkspace

 

Then I get this:

 

:getAssetsIndex FAILED

 

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

 

* What went wrong:

Execution failed for task ':getAssetsIndex'.

> java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\USERNAME\.gradle\caches\minecraft\

assets\indexes\1.7.10.json (The system cannot find the path specified)

 

* Try:

Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug

option to get more log output.

 

BUILD FAILED

 

Total time: 1 mins 28.433 secs

(I replaced my user folder name with USERNAME)

 

When I browse to  C:\Users\USERNAME\.gradle\caches\minecraft\, there is no Assets folder inside of it, which I've gathered there is supposed to be. All that is inside it are two folders: "de" and "net".

 

I have tried running this with --refresh-dependencies as well as setupDevWorkspace and there are no changes.

 

Please help!

 

Woo! It works! I thought I was going crazy.

Feels a little weird that the solution is something I tried 50 times already though.

Thanks a bunch!