copy function returns The system cannot find the file specified, when the file exists

Question

copy C:\Users\MinCarve\documents\visual studio 2017\Projects\PROGRAM\Debug\PROGRAM.exe 
     C:\Users

returns

The system cannot find the file specified. when the executable exists in that directory!

Solution

The path of your file has a space in its name, which means you have to surround the path which contains spaces with quotation marks.

Comments

[Colonel Thirty Two]

Probably need quotes around the file name.

[MinCarve]

how do i add quotes to the directory, if it is a variable in c++?

[aschipfl]

Related: Set a path variable with spaces in the path in a Windows .cmd file or batch file

[MinCarve]

after an hour of digging, i finally did it! string _Loc(Loc); string __Loc = "\"" + _Loc + "\""; system(("copy " + __Loc + " \"C:\\Windows\System32\"").c_str());