title: New BLANK Project Android Studio ERROR: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
body: <p>I had a project that was running perfectly fine when suddenly this error started popping up "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"</p>
  
  <p>In a NEW project with no activity, when I build I still get 
  The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect</p>
  
  <p>Things I have tried: 
  Invalidate +restart, complete reinstallation (deleted .gradle and .Android3.1 etc). If it was an error with my code I could understand, but it happenening for a Blank new project is just messing with me. </p>
  
  <pre><code>org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':app:packageDebug'.
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:50)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:97)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.CleanupStaleOutputsExecuter.execute(CleanupStaleOutputsExecuter.java:87)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ResolveTaskArtifactStateTaskExecuter.execute(ResolveTaskArtifactStateTaskExecuter.java:52)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:52)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:54)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.CatchExceptionTaskExecuter.execute(CatchExceptionTaskExecuter.java:34)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker$1.run(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:248)
  at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:336)
  at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:328)
  at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:199)
  at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:110)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:241)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:230)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:123)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.access$200(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:79)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker$1.execute(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:104)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker$1.execute(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:98)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.execute(DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.java:626)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.executeWithTask(DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.java:581)
  at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:98)
  at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:63)
  at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ManagedExecutorImpl$1.run(ManagedExecutorImpl.java:46)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
  at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ThreadFactoryImpl$ManagedThreadRunnable.run(ThreadFactoryImpl.java:55)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  Caused by: org.gradle.api.UncheckedIOException: Could not normalize path for file 'D:\HalflNHalf\app\D:Android\.android\debug.keystore'.
  at org.gradle.api.internal.file.FileNormaliser.normalise(FileNormaliser.java:90)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.file.AbstractFileResolver.resolve(AbstractFileResolver.java:88)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.file.AbstractFileResolver.resolve(AbstractFileResolver.java:68)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskInputs.toFile(DefaultTaskInputs.java:395)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskInputs.access$500(DefaultTaskInputs.java:48)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskInputs$6.validate(DefaultTaskInputs.java:355)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.TaskPropertyInfo$3.validate(TaskPropertyInfo.java:112)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.TaskPropertyValue.validate(TaskPropertyValue.java:38)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskInputFilePropertySpec.validate(DefaultTaskInputFilePropertySpec.java:124)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskInputs.validate(DefaultTaskInputs.java:171)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:47)
  ... 27 more
  Caused by: java.io.IOException: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
  at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)
  at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize(WinNTFileSystem.java:428)
  at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:618)
  at java.io.File.getCanonicalFile(File.java:643)
  at org.gradle.api.internal.file.FileNormaliser.normalise(FileNormaliser.java:54)
  ... 37 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The project is completely empty and has just been generated by Android Studio. I have no idea what is wrong.</p>