Error 3 0x00000003 Accessing Source Directory

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now, I have been testing it various ways. 1) One way I tried testing it was mapping the server's location as a network drive. I currently have it as drive V:\. Whenever I run the script, I get this error: Get-Item: Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'V' does not exist. ERROR 3 (0x00000003) Accessing Source Directory V:\ The System cannot find the path specified. I'm using robocopy error the system cannot find the file specified Robocopy like this: robocopy $spath $newFolder /COPY:DAT /b 2) The first time I tried test my script, I was trying to access directly to the server. $spath = \\###.###.##.###\ Whenver I tried this, this is the error I got: Get-Item : Cannot find path '\\###.###.##.###\' because it does not exist. ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Accessing Source Directory \\###.###.##.##\ Access is denied. I am running Powershell as an administrator, on the administrator account on this computer (It's just for testing, but it's a Windows 7 desktop). Any ideas? Edit: The destination path is a hard drive that we have connected USB 2.0 Edited by Cattzs Friday, June 29, 2012 2:22 PM Friday, June 29, 2012 2:21 PM Reply | Quote Answers 1 Sign in to vote Honestly not sure why it's not working for you.. I thought it might be something to do with the hidden share so I tried that and still couldn't reproduce the problem. judging by your screenshot you're calling your script with a parameter for the file containing the source pathso i wrote some .xml files to get the source and dest path from and it still worked o_O so i'm outta ideas! the below works perfectly here if thats any help.

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hiring developers or posting ads with us Server Fault Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/f642415b-2b9e-43fe-88aa-ee660ed86508/robocopy-error-3-system-cannot-find-path-specified-and-error-5-access-denied?forum=winserverpowershell system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Scheduled robocopy fails with error 3 (Creating Destination Directory) up vote 2 down vote favorite Related: Scheduled http://serverfault.com/questions/522902/scheduled-robocopy-fails-with-error-3-creating-destination-directory Robocopy task fails with 0x10 error I'm using robocopy as part of a server backup script. It fetches the files to this workstation (Windows 7, upgraded from Vista - that caused some quirks before), and then copies them to a server in LAN (Windows Server 2000). robocopy H:\folder \\SERVER\drive\folder /MIR /LOG:H:\backup.log /TBD /TEE When this task runs in scheduled tasks, usually the network folder has not been accessed yet by the computer since startup. As such, it usually ends up failing: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Started : Fri Jul 12 16:16:03 2013 2013/07/12 16:16:03 ERROR 3 (0x00000003) Getting File System Type of Destination \\SERVER\drive\folder The system cannot find the path specified. Source : H:\folder Dest - \\SERVER\drive\folder Files : *.* Options : *.* /TBD /TEE /S /E /COPY:DAT /PURGE /MIR /R:1000000 /W:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2013/07/12 16:16:03 ERROR 3 (0x00000003) Creating Destination Directory \\SERVER\drive\folder The system cannot find the path specified. As you can

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