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vote favorite 5 I have the following in a prebuild event: copy /y $(ProjectDir)ThirdPartyAssemblies\ $(TargetDir) Which results in the following error: The command "copy /y C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\mysolution\myproject\ThirdPartyAssemblies* C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\mysolution\myproject\bin\Debug\" exited with code 1. I've tried it in a post build event too and get the same error. Yet when I run the command it results in (the one in the error) in a console window it works error msb3073 the command exited with code 1 fine. What am I doing wrong? visual-studio-2010 pre-build-event share|improve this question edited May 22 '13 at 4:00 Blorgbeard 60.4k30158219 asked Apr 8 '12 at 13:27 Mark Bostleman 1,26721633 add a comment| 5 Answers 5 active oldest votes up vote 30 down vote accepted I'm not sure if it's related to the error you're receiving, but you need to place quotes around your path/file names since there are spaces in them. copy /y "C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\mysolution\myproject\ThirdPartyAssemblies*" "C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\mysolution\myproject\bin\Debug\" share|improve this answer answered Apr 8 '12 at 13:32 Michael Bowersox 1,006915 That was it, thanks - of course, I put the quotes in when I tested in the console, but it didn't occur to me that VS would need them too. –Mark Bostleman Apr 8 '12 at 13:53 add a comment| up vote 14 down vote copy /y "$(SolutionDir)MyProject\myFile.xxx" "$(TargetDir)" did not work for me. I pulled my hair out for 45 minutes until I stumbled across this page and then tried: xcopy /y "$(SolutionDir)MyProject\myFile.xxx" "$(TargetDir)" share|improve this answer answered Oct 11 '12 at 21:40 Colin Pear 1,90812022 add a comment| up vote 4 down vote Also, you can do it by macros. In Post/Pre Build Event Command Line, expand macros. copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)MyProject\Bin\Debug\"; share

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programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Post Build Event Exited with Code 1 up vote 3 down vote favorite I am trying to clean up the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10063146/prebuild-event-copy-command-exits-with-code-1 release folder using Post Build event so i delete .xml and .pdb files and try to copy all dll files into custom lib folder bug i get Post Build Exited with Code 1 My code: if $(ConfigurationName) == Release del "$(TargetDir)*.xml", "$(TargetDir)*.pdb" if $(ConfigurationName) == Release xcopy "$(TargetDir)\*.dll" "$(TargetDir)\lib\" The 2 commands are separated by new line as shown... Also Lib folder exists. c# visual-studio-2013 share|improve this question edited Jul 23 '14 at 20:57 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24920359/post-build-event-exited-with-code-1 asked Jul 23 '14 at 20:30 Daniel Eugen 85331226 2 According to the documentation, a return code of 1 means "No files were found to copy.". –Uwe Keim Jul 23 '14 at 20:36 In addition, since you write the file names in line on in quotes, I also suggest to do the same in line two. E.g. xcopy "$(TargetDir)*.dll" "$(TargetDir)lib\". –Uwe Keim Jul 23 '14 at 20:38 @UweKeim neither work idk why –Daniel Eugen Jul 23 '14 at 20:39 @UweKeim also the dll files are in the same folder as the exe i just want to move them then to a custom folder... –Daniel Eugen Jul 23 '14 at 20:43 A good way to debug post build events is to copy the commands from the output window (with the macros expanded) and try it in your console. –Vache Jul 23 '14 at 20:45 | show 1 more comment 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote Instead of xcopy $(TargetDir)*.dll $(TargetDir)lib\ you should use xcopy "$(TargetDir)*.dll" "$(TargetDir)lib\" to handle spaces in the path. share|improve this answer answered Jul 23 '14 at 21:02 Reg Edit 2,7581225 actually it worked when i replace xcopy with copy... –Daniel Eugen Jul 23 '14 at 21:03 add a c

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