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\InitialPowerGadget\Release\EnergyLib.dll" "C:\Users\jlee\Desktop\10_IPG2.7_4\InitialPowerGadget\Bins32\EnergyLib32.dll"
3>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(113,5): error MSB3073: copy "C:\Users\jlee\Desktop\10_IPG2.7_4\InitialPowerGadget\EnergyDriver\objfre_win7_x86\i386\EnergyDriver.sys" "C:\Users\jlee\Desktop\10_IPG2.7_4\InitialPowerGadget\Bins32"
3>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(113,5): error MSB3073: :VCEnd" exited with code 1.

I was researching online, I think it has to do something with relative pathing; but I'm not sure. Can someone help explain what is wrong and how to fix this?

Answer 1

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 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