Error when creating new projects

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Hi,

So I’m new to Unity and still going through tutorials and guides, have just done some stuff related to prefabs, so not that far in.

When I started a new Project I keep on getting the errors below, with no idea why they have appeared and how to get rid of them:

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.ide.rider@3.0.15\Rider\Editor\RiderScriptEditorData.cs(1,1): error CS1056: Unexpected character ’

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.ide.visualstudio@2.0.16\Editor\Messaging\Serializer.cs(1,1): error CS1056: Unexpected character ’

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.testtools.codecoverage@1.0.1\Editor\CoverageFormats\OpenCover\Model\Class.cs(1,1): error CS1056: Unexpected character ’

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Any help would be amazing, if this has happened before and theres another post, please let me know, I have searched but I cannot find anything.

Thank you in advance.

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I’m having the same problem.

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Extra unwanted packages in new projects (collab, testing, rider and other junk):

About the fastest way I have found to make a project and avoid all this noise is to create the project, then as soon as you see the files appear, FORCE-STOP (hard-kill) Unity (with the Activity Manager or Task Manager), then go hand-edit the Packages/manifest.json file as outlined in the above post, then reopen Unity.

Sometimes the package system gets borked from all this unnecessary churn and requires the package cache to be cleared: