Windows 10 error «The system cannot find the path specified»

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We understand the inconvenience you have experienced.

Did you make any changes to your computer? Like installing some software or Windows Update?

Execute below mentioned troubleshooting steps and check if they sort out the issue.

Method 1:

If an app or update that you recently installed caused problems with your PC, you can restore Windows back to an earlier point in time, called a restore point. System Restore doesn’t change your personal files, but it might remove recently installed apps and drivers.

This option takes your PC back to an earlier point in time, called a system restore point. Restore points are generated when you install a new app, driver, or Windows update, and when you create a restore point manually . Restoring won’t affect your personal files, but it will remove apps, drivers, and updates installed after the restore point was made.

1. Right-click (or press and hold) the Start button, and then select Control Panel .
2. Search Control Panel for Recovery .
3. Select Recovery >Open System Restore >Next .
4. Choose the restore point related to the problematic app, driver, or update, and then select Next >Finish .

Note: If you’re not seeing any restore points, it might be because system protection isn’t turned on. To check, go to the Control Panel , search for Recovery , and then select Recovery > Configure System Restore > Configure and make sure Turn on system protection is selected.

Disclaimer: Though it is said that System Restore does not affect your personal information such as email, documents, photos, videos, etc., but there is highly possible that some of your personal files are deleted while system restoring. During System Restore, there may be errors and such errors may cause damage to the files that are present in the system. And, computer shutdown during restoring process may also lead to file loss. Sometimes when System Restore is failed, it may lead to loss of important files as well.

Method 2:

Sometimes problem with the User Profile causes this kind of behavior. Suggest you to try setting up another User Profile to see if it makes any difference. You can follow below mentioned steps to create another User Profile.

1. Select the Start button, then select Settings >Accounts >Your account.
2. Select Family & other users (or Other users, if you’re using Windows 10 Enterprise).
3. Under Other users, select Add someone else to this PC.
4. At the bottom of the page, select I don’t have this person’s sign-in information.
5. At the bottom of the next page, select Add a user without a Microsoft account.
6. Enter a name for the new account. If you want this person to sign in with a password, enter and verify the password, add a password hint, then select Next.
7. Select Finish. Close all windows.
8. Go to Start > Settings/>Accounts/>Your Account and click Sign in with local account Instead. Follow the steps to switch your account to local account.

Now logoff from the existing User Profile. When you’re on the login screen, on the left bottom corner you can see the account which we have created. Now login with that account and try to convert that account as Microsoft account by navigating to Start/> Settings/>Accounts/>Your Account/> Sign with Microsoft account Instead . Use Microsoft account credentials to make it Microsoft account. Check if everything works fine.

How to fix `The system cannot find the path specified` error on Windows 10?

I am using Windows 10.

I keep encountering the error message The system cannot find the path specified whenever I run a python script, start a cygwin terminal, bash script .

There is no meaningful error message to pinpoint the exact cause. I suspect this is due to one of the pathnames in PATH variable to be pointing to non-existent path. How can I find out which pathname is causing it?

If someone can point me to other possible causes, please share.

2 Answers 2

Powershell Path Test

Here is a one line Powershell script that will test all paths in your PATH Environment Variable exist. It will report OK or MISSING for each path. If any paths are listed as missing, you should manually remove them from the Environment Variable.

Option 2

Run the following from an Elevated CMD prompt. This ensures all windows paths and executables are available, permissions correct and non corrupt. After running it, it will give further instructions if needed.

Option 3

Open the Registry Editor (regedit.exe). Check the following (if the exist) for invalid not wanted paths. As Usual, BACKUP Registry Before Making Changes.

Option 4

Get the small utility Process Monitor from Microsoft’s site. Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. You WILL find the offending path using this tool.

1. Download, Extract & Run
2. Close as many open programs as possible.
3. In Process Monitor, under file is a capture events checkbox to enable/disable. Once you get it open, stop capturing, then choose Edit -> Clear Display.
4. Now get ready to reproduce the «System cannot find the path specified» error.
5. Just before triggering the error, enable «Capture Events». Upon the error, immediately disable «Capture Events» in Process Monitor.
6. Use the «Filter» menu to find the offending operation. Find rows with a Result of «NAME NOT FOUND» or «PATH NOT FOUND». The offender will likely have an «Event Class» = «File System» || «Registry». It may be another Result/Event Class but, I would start there.

Some Filters to try and narrow down the offender:

• «Result» -> NOT -> «SUCCESS»
• «Process Name» -> IS -> «cmd.exe» (or other shell)

After you find what you’re looking for, and fix the issue, you will at minimum need to close and re-open your prompt before re-testing, but may also need to perform a reboot.

If removal of the offending record can be uninstalled vs just removed, do this as a bad/outdated Filesystem path may only be half the issue, additionally requiring a registry record update. The uninstaller should solve both.

R Startup on Windows10- “The system cannot find the path specified.” message. How can I find the path?

This is not a big deal; everything seems to be working, but I’m bothered by a message that I receive every time I start R on Windows 10:

I’ve reinstalled it, changed paths in Rprofile.site, messed with my path. I can directly run the R executable:

and still get the message.

Anyways, I just want to understand R’s startup sequence a bit better, so I’d appreciate any advice on where to look to find that path R is trying to open at startup.

Update @Pepv’s link led me to the startup package’s startup(debug=TRUE) function. After doing a bit of cleanup, below is the full output. The answer has to be staring me in the face now.

Update 2 Or maybe not. Rterm.exe does not trigger the message, and per this source, «R (as opposed to Rterm) is a small .exe program that does a little argument parsing, then runs Rterm.» Even R.exe —help triggers the message so this must have something to do with the actual R.exe argument parsing. Close to closing this question.

1 Answer 1

When R starts, the following user-specific setup takes place:

The first .Renviron file found on the R startup search path is processed. The search path is (in order): (i) Sys.getenv(«R_ENVIRON_USER»), (ii) ./.Renviron, and (iii)

/.Renviron. The format of this file is one ENV_VAR=VALUE statement per line, cf. ?.Renviron. NOTE: Some environment variables must be set already in this step in order to be acknowledged by R, i.e. it is too late to set some of them in Step 2 and Step 3 below.

The first .Rprofile file found on the R startup search path is processed. The search path is (in order): (i) Sys.getenv(«R_PROFILE_USER»), (ii) ./.Rprofile, and (iii)

/.Rprofile. The format of this file must be a valid R script (with a trailing newline), cf. ?.Rprofile.

If the .Rprofile file (in Step 2) calls startup::startup() then the following will also take place:

The system cannot find the path specified in anaconda command prompt

Whenever I open the Anaconda Prompt, I get the message above printed twice (see screenshot of my prompt. How can I remove this?

3 Answers 3

try executing conda init and restart the anaconda prompt. It should initialize the conda environment again.

Go to Control Panel\System and Security\System\Advanced System Settings then look for Environment Variables.

Your user variables should contain Path=Path\to\Anaconda3\Scripts .

You need to figure where your Anaconda3 folder is (i.e. the path to this folder). Mine was in C:\Users\(User Name) \Anaconda3 .

Install anaconda with specified user not public. This option create the directed folder within the user name so just copy the directory into system — advanced — path and edit variables.

Not the answer you’re looking for? Browse other questions tagged windows-10 anaconda or ask your own question.

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PatrikElfstrom commented Sep 6, 2016

My friend gets this error when running gulp-imagemin on all jpg files.
This was called from a clean file with the same code as in the example.

I tried running imagemin without gulp and imagemin-cli and those seem to work.

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kevva commented Sep 6, 2016

Seems like one of the binaries is missing (probably jpegtran or mozjpeg). Did he get any errors upon installing gulp-imagemin ?

PatrikElfstrom commented Sep 6, 2016

No I don’t think so. I believe all test were green. We reinstalled a bunch
of times but I’ll have to confirm with him tomorrow.

On Sep 6, 2016 17:11, «Kevin Mårtensson» notifications@github.com wrote:

Seems like one of the binaries is missing (probably jpegtran or mozjpeg).
Did he get any errors upon installing gulp-imagemin?

PatrikElfstrom commented Sep 7, 2016 •

We did not get any errors while installing.
It seems like there was permission issues that caused the error.
I think the culprit is visual studio. We restarted the computer and tested before starting visual studio and it worked. But it did also work after we started visual studio so I am not sure that is the problem but that seems most likely.
So it works not but I will report back if the error reoccurs and if I find the cause.

snowcxt commented Oct 6, 2016

I got similar error on win 8.1. I restarted the computer. But it didn’t work

PatrikElfstrom commented Oct 7, 2016

@snowcxt Do you use visual studio in the same directory?

snowcxt commented Oct 7, 2016

crick64 commented Aug 7, 2017

I fixed the relative issues by install npm inside the gulp-imagemin directory:

Then retry. Good luck 😉

aikar commented Aug 24, 2017

For anyone who runs into this ticket trying to debug this error on why npm run doesn’t work on Windows for things in node_modules/.bin/ such as gulp, it relates to the fact that npm is using cmd.exe instead of bash for the child.

You can fix this with NPM 5.1.0+ using npm config set script-shell bash

Dan503 commented Nov 21, 2017

I was able to finally get it working by installing various things directly by using this command:

5 of 6 tasks complete

chriszrc commented Aug 23, 2018

For what it’s worth, I saw this problem on a windows 10 system, where the user had a space in their name, so their user folder also did as well (/Users/My User/etc), and that also produced this error-

akumarbit commented Nov 26, 2019 •

I was also struggling with this error a lot. I am working behind corporate proxy and firewalls. Please go through following steps.

1. Download the windows build tools and go through the steps mentioned in the below link
   https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/03/27/node-gyp-windows/
2. To check if the above step worked try «npm install kerberos». If you are able to install kerberos without any errors then step 1 is successful.

3 set the http and https proxy using npm config command

4 set the environment variable NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED to 0

1. Delete the node_modules directory and build or npm install again.

Hopefully once you take all the above steps your problem should be solved.

derick-montague commented Nov 28, 2019

Seems like one of the binaries is missing (probably jpegtran or mozjpeg). Did he get any errors upon installing gulp-imagemin?

You can fix this with NPM 5.1.0+ using npm config set script-shell bash

You will want to reinstall all your packages after running this. I didn’t see any errors, but not all the packages were being installed.

EmanueleCiriachi commented Jul 2, 2020 •

I have the same problem — and so far, no solution.

EDIT: the solution to this whole ordeal was, for me, to disable our corporate firewall (Cisco AnyConnect) during the package(s) installation. The error I was getting («Warning: Error: The system cannot find the path specified.» followed by a file path) was misleading as it was not about my image, but about whatever file imagemin needed to work.

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