IntelliSense keeps giving [Failure] Could not find a part of the path C:\TEMP

visual-studio visual-studio-2015 intellisense

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Exit Visual Studio
Delete all non-project files (bin, obj. .vs, _ReSharper.Caches folders, *.suo files, ...)
Start VS and rebuild

That fixed it for me.

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Aisah Hamzah

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Updated on August 01, 2022

Comments

Aisah Hamzah almost 2 years
After changing my temporary folder, I got an issue with IntelliSense in VS2015 complaining it cannot find the temp folder (other applications, including VS2015, find the new location just fine).

The error I receive after firing up a project (seems to happen with any type of solution, C#, ASP.NET etc) is repeatedly this message in the output window of Visual Studio 2015:
```
[Failure] Could not find a part of the path 'R:\TMP\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.cs'.
[Failure] Could not find a part of the path 'R:\TMP\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.cs'.
[Failure] Could not find a part of the path 'R:\TMP\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.cs'.
[Failure] Could not find a part of the path 'R:\TMP\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.cs'.
[Failure] Could not find a part of the path 'R:\TMP\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.cs'.
[Failure] Could not find a part of the path 'R:\TMP\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.cs'.
[Failure] Could not find a part of the path 'R:\TMP\.NETFramework,Version=v4.0.AssemblyAttributes.cs'.
```
I think I replaced all rogue references to the R:\TMP location in the registry, but this one remains. Anyone any idea how to fix this?
- Sara Liu - MSFT about 7 years
  
  Hi Abel, please try to remove or delete the folders: C:\Users\<your users name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0 and C:\Users\<your users name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0. Delete the .suo file in your project folder and start the VS to open your project to rebuild it.
Patrick almost 7 years

I have tried to delete the bin and obj folders but this could not help. When I deleted the suo files it worked again, thanks!
VAUser1 about 6 years

Deleting the .vs folder fixed it for me
Aisah Hamzah over 5 years

If it only were true, that was the first thing I tried. The message kept coming back. But as already answered, it's a problem with the .vs folder, containing localized settings. Delete that and it solves the issue.