Error 3 The Command Copy Exited With Code 1

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The Command Copy /y Exited With Code 1

causing this? Is there any way to get to the real error? We are both using Visual Studio 2008. visual-studio-2008 post-build share|improve this question edited Oct 16 '13 at 14:31 jdhurst 1,59211117 asked Nov 21 '08 at 20:41 Tim Scott 9,45423556 add a comment| 15 Answers 15 active oldest votes up vote 88 down vote accepted She had a space in one of the folder names in her path, and no quotes around it. share|improve this answer answered Nov 21 '08 at 21:52 Tim Scott 9,45423556 8 putting quotes on path names is a good practice. not working in paths that contains space is event better :-) –Asher Nov 21 '08 at 21:54 The spaces thing got me too. –CAD bloke Mar 15 '11 at 6:57 3 copy /y "$(TargetDir)Dotfuscated\" "$(TargetDir)" this command notworking for me and if i am write exit 0 at end then work fine. can u tell me why? –Rikin Patel Oct 22 '12 at 3:12 add a comment| up vote 45 down vote The one with the "Pings" helped me... but may be explained a little better... For me the solu

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hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges the command exited with code 1 visual studio 2015 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. the command exited with code 123 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 release folder using Post Build event so i delete http://stackoverflow.com/questions/310126/post-build-exited-with-code-1 .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" "$(TargetDir)\lib\" The 2 commands are separated by new line as shown... Also Lib folder exists. c# visual-studio-2013 share|improve this question edited Jul 23 '14 at 20:57 asked Jul 23 '14 at 20:30 Daniel Eugen 85331226 2 According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24920359/post-build-event-exited-with-code-1 the documentation, a return code of 1 means "No files were found to copy.". –Uwe Keim Jul 23 '14 at 20:36 In addition, since you write the file names in line on in quotes, I also suggest to do the same in line two. E.g. xcopy "$(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 comment| up vote 0 down vote First, try using $(TargetDir)\, as there are some variables which return without a trailing slash, which would concatenate your path so you'

here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3861474/command-copy-exited-with-code-4-when-building-visual-studio-restart-solves-it developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23161312/How-do-you-fix-the-command-exited-with-code-1-error.html 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: Sign up Command copy exited with code 4 when building - Visual Studio restart solves it up vote 120 down vote favorite 22 Every now and then when I build my solution here the command (with 7 projects in it) I get the dreaded 'Command copy exited with code 4' error, in Visual Studio 2010 Premium ed. This is because of the post-build event not being able to go through. Here's what solves the problem, temporarily Sometimes: A restart of Visual Studio and I'm able to build the solution Sometimes: Both a restart of Visual Studio and my file manager of choice (Q-Dir 4.37) solves it. Here's what the post-build event looks like: xcopy exited with code "$(SolutionDir)Solution Items\References\*.dll" "$(TargetDir)" /Y When you get the command copy exited with code [insert value] error, it's normally because of the following: read / write permissions missing files wrong directories However - obviously at times when I build the solution, there's no problem. FYI, I uninstalled ReSharper 5.1.1 two weeks ago and Visual Studio's been giving me some errors since then (among them not being able to debug). I re-installed Visual Studio and it's working better since then, but still get this problem. Could it have to do with some ReSharper stuff being somewhere? Have you had the same problem and solved it? Or do you have any possible solution to it? Cheers. visual-studio share|improve this question asked Oct 5 '10 at 7:03 Martin S. 9562918 add a comment| 21 Answers 21 active oldest votes up vote 64 down vote accepted I've invariably found this to be a file locking issue. Code 4 is Cannot Access File. One partial solution I found is to use the /C option for xcopy (which continues on error). Not really a solution but mostly it has stopped my builds from failing. Another solution which only works on 32 bit is to use the unlocker tool to release the windows handles on the file before the copy. Edit: I've just realised that it works under 64 bits too. share|improve this answer answered Oct 5 '10 at 7:30 Preet Sa

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