# Error launching Designer remotely with error java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-launching-designer-remotely-with-error-java-nio-file-filealreadyexistsexception/40410>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [November 7, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-launching-designer-remotely-with-error-java-nio-file-filealreadyexistsexception/40410 "2020-11-07T13:07:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-launching-designer-remotely-with-error-java-nio-file-filealreadyexistsexception/40410/2 "2020-11-08T00:15:46Z")

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See these threads:

> [@\[BUG-YT-336\] Exception launching designer](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-yt-336-exception-launching-designer/38139/5):
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> I think we can change jre-win folder name to 11.0.7 to solve this problem. [image]

> [@Unable to launch designer after updating to 8.0.16](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-launch-designer-after-updating-to-8-0-16/38805/15):
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> @framebuilder Deleting the jre-win dir if it exists before launching a client would help if there is a prior failure. The JRE is only dowloaded once per version so after it succeeds there should be no issue from there on out so simply launching a client or designer on a machine should allow you to get a cached runtime (assuming you don’t hit this issue, which the previously mentioned workaround should fix) It should also be noted that a fix for this is currently submitted for testing and shoul…

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