Android Studio 3.2.1 - Cannot sync project with gradle files: Argument for @NotNull parameter 'message' of … must not be null

Question

I have a problem using AndroidStudio. I freshly installed it on my Kubuntu 18.04 machine and wanted to create my frist project. Everyhting worked fine and the project opened

Answer 1

Had a similar problem after renaming the project folder and adding the renamed folder as new project.

• solved this by the infamous "Invalidate Caches / Restart" option

(before I removed the old project link which was not enough)