Resolve Error “ArtifactTransferException: Could not transfer artifact” or “Failure to Transfer” in Maven

This is very short tips to resolve the errors “ArtifactTransferException: Could not transfer artifact” that may occur in Maven project in Eclipse.

Steps to resolve:

  1. Open folder by running this text (without Quotes) in Search Explorer of Window “%USERPROFILE%.m2”.
  2. After running above command, “m2” folder of maven will open. Now search for file (without Quotes) “*.lastUpdated”.
  3. In this step, delete all the files found by running Step 2.
  4. Now go to Eclipse project and select “Maven | Update Dependency” or “Maven | Update Project”.

By now, your issue will be resolved.

Happy Coding !!!

24 comments

  1. Thank you sooo much. I had a tough time to find a solution for this problem. Your solution resolved my problem. I thank you very much for posting this solution.

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  10. I tried your solution.. I tried to delete updated pom and jar files for only 1, it downloaded the pom and jar again but still eclipse says jar file is missing. It has downloaded.

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  17. Thanks! worked on my macbook, although I just searched for “.m2” from my user directory instead of %USERPROFILE%

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      1. When I search for *.lastUpdated dont find any files in the mac book. Please let me know did I miss anything here.

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  18. this is my pom.xml
    =====================

    4.0.0

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-parent
    2.1.9.RELEASE
    <!– lookup parent from repository –>
    ../my-parent

    com.danish
    bike
    0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
    bike
    Bike registration using Spring Boot and Angular JS

    1.8

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-web

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-test
    test

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-maven-plugin

    i Am getting below error.
    ===================

    Project build error: Non-resolvable parent POM for com.danish:bike:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT: Could not transfer artifact org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-parent:pom:2.1.9.RELEASE from/to central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 10106: create and ‘parent.relativePath’ points at wrong local POM

    I performed steps to resolve this issue but could not do–

    Open folder by running this text (without Quotes) in Search Explorer of Window “%USERPROFILE%.m2”.
    After running above command, “m2” folder of maven will open. Now search for file (without Quotes) “*.lastUpdated”.
    In this step, delete all the files found by running Step 2.
    Now go to Eclipse project and select “Maven | Update Dependency” or “Maven | Update Project”.

    Reply

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