I have a strange error message I don't understand or can't get rid of. Secondly when I try to create express app on webstorm it can't find express. I'm using windows 7 64 bit.
PS C:\dv> npm -v
The system cannot find the path specified.
1.2.14
PS C:\dv>
many thanks in advance
Jeremy
It's a really old post, but I thought I'd share just in case it helps someone. In my case, the issue wasn't with npm, but instead with ansicon.
Removing the value of the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun resolved the issue, as described in these links...
https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/issues/121
The system cannot find the path specified when starting Ruby and Rails command prompt
ansicon ended up installed on my machine.
For me , Deleting these two folder worked:
JUST Delete
C:\Users\yourUserName\AppData\Roaming\npm
AND
C:\Users\yourUserName\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache
I spent days figuring out how to fix this. Finally, using Process Monitor program, I found out:
%APPDATA%/Temp which no longer existed since I had uninstalled that program. *Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1659004503-1897051121-1177238915-282167\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun* value. Hope this helps.
In my case, nvm-windows "destroy" my windows setting. https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows
I uninstall nvm-windows than go to AppData (hidden folder sometimes) - change to visible: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028316/windows-view-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-10 and remove npm cache manually (Under username\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache)
Also, run windows command %temp% Ctrl + A (select all) and delete - to clean up your system (maybe related).
Some of my global -g- packages (Like vue-cli should re-install) - after this weird bug (Nightmare).
%temp% from where?
Had the same problem. Running npm gave me this error:
C:\Users\user>npm
The system cannot find the path specified.
I ended up uninstalling nodejs from the Control Panel and re-installing with a fresh download.
The error doesn't say it couldn't find the command, so I figured it was something wrong with the npm script. The script is located at C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.cmd, found via the path var. echo %path%.
The script contained:
@IF EXIST "%~dp0\/bin/sh.exe" (
"%~dp0\/bin/sh.exe" "%~dp0\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" %*
) ELSE (
/bin/sh "%~dp0\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" %*
)
This looked wrong, as there are forward slashes for Windows and no sh.exe file where the script wants it to be. There is also no /bin/sh file, because its Windows :( Which is why it can't find the specified path.
I tried to get node working in cygwin because its resembles linux and makes Windows at least somewhat bearable. Maybe this was the problem?
Anyway after re-installing the npm.cmd file looks like:
:: Created by npm, please don't edit manually.
@IF EXIST "%~dp0\node.exe" (
"%~dp0\node.exe" "%~dp0\.\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" %*
) ELSE (
node "%~dp0\.\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" %*
)
The slashes look right and it works.
Do you use Cygwin or any other Linux emulating shell as your Command Line? If that's the case a possible cause could be a known bug with the npm script. Please try the solution suggested here,
Issue was with OneDrive on Windows 10 for me. Moving the file outside of OneDrive and onto desktop solved the issue. Kibana was throwing the error for me.
