Double quotes in Shortcut fields

[John Gray]

I'm having a Lot of Trouble trying to get the following to work in a Windows 7 Shortcut/Desktop Icon:

Target: "D:\Macrium Reflect backups\RunReflectFree.bat" "Reflect C drive backup.xml"
Start in: "D:\Macrium Reflect backups"

The problem lies in the double quotes.
The error message I get before the command prompt window disappears complains about
D:\Macrium
not being a valid program, and the like.

If I replace all the path blanks with underscores (obviously renaming the folder and XML file), and remove the double quotes, it works - but why can't I get it to run as shown above?
Do I need yet more double-quotes surrounding the Target field, perhaps?

Incidentally, the "Start in" field doesn't seem to put me in that disk and directory, but I can get round this by placing
CD /D "D:\Macrium Reflect backups"
within my BATch file.

[HansV]

Have you tried using the legacy short path? It doesn't need quotes.

As you undoubtedly know, you can see the short path by executing

dir D:\ /x

in a command prompt window.

[John Gray]

No, I haven't tried the short path - but it shouldn't be necessary!
As I said, I've changed the blanks in the paths to underscores, removed the double-quotes, and it works.

I still can't see why the original specification fails...

Later...
I've now found some Stuff about running as Administrator or User in StackOverflow, which I'll have to look at.

[HansV]

OK, but using the short path wouldn't require renaming the folder.

Interesting behaviour reported in the StackOverflow thread...