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of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up What is going wrong when Visual Studio tells me “xcopy exited with code 4” up vote 70 copy exited with code 1 down vote favorite 7 I'm not very familiar with post-build events, so I'm a little confused as to what's going wrong with my program. When compiling in visual studio 2010, I get the following: The command "xcopy C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\Library\dsoframer.ocx C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\bin\Debug\ /Y /E /D xcopy C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\ApplicationFiles C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\bin\Debug\ /Y /E /D xcopy C:\Users\Me\Path\url\ C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\bin\Debug\ /Y /E /D rmdir /S /Q C:\Users\Me\Path\Foo.bar\bin\Debug\.gwt-tmp" exited with code 4. The program appears to run fine, despite this error, but xcopy exit code I don't want to just ignore this issue and hope nothing bad happens. Strangely, this line started out as only a single command (the first xcopy) but as I continued to compile the project (fixing other problems, mostly references) the error message expanded larger and larger. Any idea what could be going on? Edit: Here are the postbuild events that seem to be failing -- xcopy $(ProjectDir)Library\dsoframer.ocx $(TargetDir) /Y /E /D xcopy $(ProjectDir)ApplicationFiles $(TargetDir) /Y /E /D xcopy $(SolutionDir)com.myUrl.gwt\www $(TargetDir) /Y /E /D rmdir /S /Q $(TargetDir).gwt-tmp c# visual-studio-2010 visual-studio-2012 xcopy share|improve this question edited Mar 31 '14 at 13:41 Arafat 5971517 asked Apr 11 '11 at 19:37 Raven Dreamer 2,79394077 Apart from answers below, also make sure to open VS with Administrator privileges. Copy to specific locations require admin rights. –Nikhil Agrawal Jul 28 at 9:59 add a comment| 9 Answers 9 active oldest votes up vote 99 down vote accepted Xcopy exit code 4 means "Initialization error occurred. There is not enough memory or disk space, or you entered an invalid drive name or invalid syntax on the command line." It looks like Visual Studio is supplying invalid arguments to xcopy. Check your post-build event command via Project Properties > Right Click > Build Events > Post Build Ev
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Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5626557/what-is-going-wrong-when-visual-studio-tells-me-xcopy-exited-with-code-4 Sign up The command “XCOPY” exited with code 4 error while building checkin with new build definition up vote 3 down vote favorite I am using TFS2012.I have created a build definition to build every checkIn uding VS2012. In Vs2008 for my project i have created a pre-build event with XCOPY to copy some files from solution Directory to another folder.But after http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16441006/the-command-xcopy-exited-with-code-4-error-while-building-checkin-with-new-bui i do CheckIn Build is failing with following error Summary Debug | Any CPU 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) $/test/coding_files/cal_reg.sln - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s), View Log File C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets (895): The command "XCOPY "C:\Builds\1\test\New Build Definition 1\Sources\coding_files\*.*" "\\pc97\D\" /E /Y /R /K" exited with code 4. $/test/coding_files/cal_reg.sln compiled No Test Results No Code Coverage Results Other Errors and Warnings 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) Exception Message: MSBuild error 1 has ended this build. You can find more specific information about the cause of this error in above messages. (type BuildProcessTerminateException) Exception Stack Trace: at System.Activities.Statements.Throw.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.ActivityInstance.Execute(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation) Why this is happening?what to do to execute copy command before build? visual-studio-2012 build-automation xcopy share|improve this question edited Mar 31 '14 at 13:41 Arafat 5971517 asked May 8 '13 at 12:42 IT researcher 91353278 Have you found a solution to this problem ? Can you paste the exact XCOPY command that you have entered in the pre-build event. –Arafat Mar 31 '14 at 16:55 add a comment| 7 Answ
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c:\Windows\System32\xcopy.exe "C:\Users\XXX\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Core\Core\bin\Debug\Core.dll" C:\Users\XXX\Inetpub\wwwroot\WebService\bin" exited