Backup Errors - The system cannot find the path specified

[MartinTenbones]

I am backing up a large amount of music files using Cobian Reflector on Windows 10 and it has giving me a "The system cannot find the path specified" on a few directories. It just seems to be 3 directories that I get this error out of a large number of directories that back up just fine.

[cobian]

What is the name and the full path of those directories?

[MartinTenbones]

Here is one of them

ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \01-kim_mitchell-aint_life_amazing.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \01-kim_mitchell-aint_life_amazing.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \02-kim_mitchell-rock_that_rhyme.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \02-kim_mitchell-rock_that_rhyme.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \03-kim_mitchell-i_got_a_line_on_you.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \03-kim_mitchell-i_got_a_line_on_you.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \04-kim_mitchell-love_overtime.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \04-kim_mitchell-love_overtime.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \05-kim_mitchell-bad_times.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \05-kim_mitchell-bad_times.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \06-kim_mitchell-dreamthieves.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \06-kim_mitchell-dreamthieves.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \07-kim_mitchell-space.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \07-kim_mitchell-space.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \08-kim_mitchell-in_the_stars_tonight.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \08-kim_mitchell-in_the_stars_tonight.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \09-kim_mitchell-killers_name.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \09-kim_mitchell-killers_name.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \10-kim_mitchell-lick_a_message.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \10-kim_mitchell-lick_a_message.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \11-kim_mitchell-nawlin_nights.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \11-kim_mitchell-nawlin_nights.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified
ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \kim_mitchell-aint_life_amazing-(2007)-front.jpg" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \kim_mitchell-aint_life_amazing-(2007)-front.jpg": The system cannot find the path specified

[Graham]

Here is one of them

ERR 2022-03-24 10:19:26 An error occurred while copying "E:\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \01-kim_mitchell-aint_life_amazing.mp3" to "D:\E 2022-03-24 08;58;10\Music\Kim Mitchell - Aint Life Amazing \01-kim_mitchell-aint_life_amazing.mp3": The system cannot find the path specified

What happens if you remove the ... space ... character at the end of the foldername ... that is , after ... Amazing ...

[MartinTenbones]

So when Try jus taking the space out it says it is the same name and won't let me. Si I tried taking out the space and putting a one there and it wont let me save it. It says "Could not find this item This is no longer located in E:Music. Verify the items location and try again" . I can play the songs in it though by double clicking on them.

[cobian]

File names with a space at the end are not legal. It will be hard to delete them, even manually.

[MartinTenbones]

So a big thanks. The space was indeed the problem with all of the files. A bit of searching brought me to this solution.

I downloaded 7-Zip and was able to change the filename easily using that program.

Just backed up again and all is well.

There is one last error but its a system file and probably cant be backed up.

An error occurred while copying "E:\System Volume Information\9{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}" to "D:\E\System Volume Information\9{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}": Access is denied

[cobian]

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=810

System Volume Information can never be accessed.

[MartinTenbones]

Done. I added it to my exclusion filter and its error free now.

Again thanks for your time and effort

[ira]

it's possible something like "rename *? *" might work to delete the space.

Ira