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Android Studio – Android emulator won't start and I can't delete the emulator lock files as suggested

I’m building an android app on android studio 2024.2.1. But I am unable to start any emulators. I have tried clearing caches and restarting everything including my PC.
I’ve tried to delete the .lock files under the .avd but my powershell tells me it can’t delete those files because another process is using them.

But when I run Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.Modules.FileName -icontains "multiinstance.lock" } | select Name, ID as well as several other commands it returns nothing so it appears that no other process are using those files.

I’ve spent all at this and I’m at a loss. How do I delete this lock emulator lock files or otherwise get my emulators to start?

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    Try using your phone as an emulator, such as with Expo Go. That might be a temporary solution.

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    If you enter in Safety Mode you can delete this folder.

    Also pay attention to non-ASCII characters in the emulator path.

    To start your Mac in safe mode, you can press and hold the Shift key while your Mac starts up

    To start in Windows Hold down the F8 key while the computer is booting up (there are some variations here)

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