Composer neither installing nor updating RecursiveDirectoryIterator Cannot find path specified

Question

I have been trying to update / install with composer on my windows7 64 bit machine. But lately I am getting this errors:

$ php composer.phar install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Installing zendframework/zendxml (dev-master 559b34f)
    Cloning 559b34f426d33a11c3db118e00ce14bb8dc64e5f
Failed to download zendframework/zendxml from source: RecursiveDirectoryIterator
::__construct(C:\wamp\www\projects\vendor\zendframework\zendxml,C:\wamp\www\projects\vendor\zendframework\zendxml): The system cannot find the path specified. (
code: 3)
Now trying to download from dist
  - Installing zendframework/zendxml (dev-master 559b34f)
    Downloading: 100%



  [UnexpectedValueException]
  RecursiveDirectoryIterator::__construct(C:\wamp\www\projects\vendor/zendfra
  mework/zendxml,C:\wamp\www\projects\vendor/zendframework/zendxml): The syst
  em cannot find the path specified. (code: 3)

I have tried to remove the vendor directory as well as empty the composer cache but this didn't solve the issue.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

My problem was that I moved a directory which enabled colors in cmd.exe. Now the directory was not linked properly anymore.

Check out https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md#-the-system-cannot-find-the-path-specified-windows- and also check for invalid paths.