WinRAR Problem - The System Cannot Find the Path Specified I tried to extract a WinRAR archive. Then I got this error... the system cannot find the path specified... and then I solved the problem... Your Ad Here Tags: winrar, the system cannot find the path specified, winrar error

WinRAR Problem - The System Cannot Find the Path Specified

WinRAR is a very good program and all but sometimes there are just problems that are too frustrating. I tried to extract a WinRAR archive of some files that I received from my friend and I got this error for all files in the archive:

the system cannot find the path specified

At first I thought it was a password thing, but my friend did not specify any password for the WinRAR archive. So there must be something else. Then I found out that there was a folder in the file that had a long name. Perhaps that was the thing causing the error? I renamed the folder (inside the WinRAR archive) to a simple and short name and voila! Extraction complete.

So if you still get a "the system cannot find the path specified" error, you know what to do!