mysqldump Error 1045 Access denied despite correct passwords etc

Question

This is a tricky one, I have the following output:

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user \'root\'@\'localhost\' (using password: YES) when tr

Answer 1

Putting -p as the first option worked for me on Windows Server 2012R2 (in cmd.exe as Admin).

mysqldump.exe –p --user=root  --databases DBname --result-file=C:\DBname.sql