error MSB3073: How do I fix this?

Question

3>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MSBuild\\Microsoft.Cpp\\v4.0\\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(113,5): error MSB3073: The command \"copy \"C:\\Users\\jlee\\Desktop\\10_IPG2.7_4         


        

Answer 1

Get it. I have set up a post build event to run the unit tests automatically after each build. Delete this configure, can solve this.

Answer 2

For anyone else that comes across this question my problem was that the target directory contained spaces i.e.

C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\projects\blah

So for me the solution was to wrap $(TargetDir) in double quotes i.e.

copy ..\resources\* "$(TargetDir)" /Y

Answer 3

In my case the problem was that VC++ was trying to copy a .dll file into a system folder. Running it as administrator fixed the problem.

Answer 4

I had the following situation: I was trying to overwrite write-protected files with an post-build event copy. I need some time to find it out because I copied various files, some were copied with success some not. But for all events an error was displayed. In the example below copy event 4, 5 and 6 failed which was indicated before the error with "Zugriff verweigert" (engl.: access denied):

Answer 5

Just add your user to permission for cmd.exe file in system32. that will solve this problem.