Why is this gcloud compute copy-files producing an error message?

Question

When I execute the command

gcloud compute copy-files \"C:\\Users\\fName lName\\Desktop\\testtext.txt\" instancename:test.txt --zone europe-west1-a

Answer 1

instead of "C:\Users\fName lName\Desktop\testtext.txt"
use "\Users\fName lName\Desktop\testtext.txt" . That worked for me