Unable to move forward using cd

Question

I\'m having a problem moving forward through a path with PowerShell. I am able to move up the directory but not down. Here\'s the situation:

I open PowerShell and type

Answer 1

Before PowerShell can execute your cd command, it needs to parse it, and PowerShell's parser interprets your command like this:

cd  C:\Users\Robert Inspiron14
\/  \_____________/ \________/
Command Name  |            |
             argument 1    |
                         argument 2

In other words, C:\Users\Robert and Inspiron14 are interpreted as separate arguments.

Neither argument is a path to a valid directory, so cd (or rather Set-Location for which cd is an alias) throws an error.

You can force PowerShell to recognize C:\Users\Robert Inspiron14 as a single string argument by qualifying its boundaries using quotation marks (both " and ' will work):

cd 'C:\Users\Robert Inspiron14'

You can read more about how PowerShell parses command expressions in the about_Parsing help topic