Has anyone seen or know anything about this error code Paragon Backup & Recovery 2013 (or) 2014 Free some error occurred : can't open/create file Please help.
Same problem here. I am running Paragon Backup and Recovery 2013 free on a fully updated Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. I have already created a number of successful backups in the recent times. Everything went smoothly. Today, however, the program experienced an error I have never seen before. The program opens normally and lets me select which partitions I want to back up and where to store them. It shows the backup summary and, after I press the last “OK”, it shows the “Backup in progress” window. However, after a few seconds the backup process stops. A red cross appears in the upper left corner of “Backup in progress” and the following error message is displayed in bold: “Can't open/create file (source: Hard Disk Manager)” This happened multiple times. I tried the following: 1) Run a check disk and a sfc /scannow: no problems were found; 2) Reboot the computer and repeat as before without any changes à didn’t work; 3) Reboot the computer and select a different backup destination à didn’t work; 4) Open Control Panel and repair Paragon Backup. Then try again à didn’t work; 5) Uninstall Paragon, reboot computer, reinstall paragon, reboot computer and try again à didn’t work; I googled the error message but I haven’t found any useful information there. Any suggestions are appreciated.
In case somebody is interested: I was able to solve the problem. The cause was the following: one foldername in the backup path did contain illegal characters. That made impossible for Paragon Backup to create the backup. After I changed the name of the incriminated folder the program was able to complete the backup successfully.
In my case my file name was to long. I had a external HD with several PC's which I listed in a folder called backup. Each pc had a folder and then I had several more folders with the different backup states in them. I took the back up file and stuck it on a thumb drive and it worked fine. But this was only after hours of banging my head on the desk.......