How do I fix an OverlappingFileLockException when building with Gradle on Windows?

Question

Upon attempting to walk through the Spring REST tutorial, which uses Gradle, I encountered an OverlappingFileLockException when trying to run ./gradlew clean test.

Answer 1

It appears this was a problem writing to my default cache directory, which exists on a network location. To fix this, I added a GRADLE_USER_HOME environment variable, pointing to a local drive instead: C:\Users\ramc01\.gradle. Fixed!