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!

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

has FOUR parameters. It tries to copy
C:\Users\MinCarve\documents\visual (which does (probably) not exist) to the location
studio (which (probably) doesn't exist too, and two more parameters:
2017\Projects\PROGRAM\Debug\PROGRAM.exe
C:\Users

Copy stops with the first error found, in this case, C:\Users\MinCarve\documents\visual does not exist.

Solution: quote parameters that contain one or more spaces. Best practice: do it anyway: copy "source" "destination".

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