# "Failed to launch JVM" error prevents JabRef to startup

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/failed-to-launch-jvm-error-prevents-jabref-to-startup/1980>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 1, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/failed-to-launch-jvm-error-prevents-jabref-to-startup/1980 "2020-04-01T18:08:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![rrodrigueznt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/rrodrigueznt/32/655_2.png) [@rrodrigueznt](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/rrodrigueznt)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/failed-to-launch-jvm-error-prevents-jabref-to-startup/1980/5 "2020-04-02T18:47:08Z")

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Hi! Same problem! But the source of the issue has being identified! See:

```
Loading library api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0 from resource failed: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Users\Ricardo Rodrguez\.openjfx\cache\13.0.2\api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll: Can't find dependent libraries
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Users\Ricardo Rodrguez\.openjfx\cache\13.0.2\api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll: Can't find dependent libraries

```

The same happens both with the “installed” and the portable release copied to `c:\`. The point is that my username has an “í”, and the path to the libraries is misconstructed. See below:

```
C:\JabRef\runtime\bin>cd "C:\Users\Ricardo Rodrguez\.openjfx\cache\13.0.2\"
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\JabRef\runtime\bin>cd "C:\Users\Ricardo Rodríguez\.openjfx\cache\13.0.2\"
C:\Users\Ricardo Rodríguez\.openjfx\cache\13.0.2>

```

This accented vowel is causing me a lot of problems! But I can’t reinstall my box now avoid it. Please, how could I fine-tune the way JabRef construct the path to the libraries to workaround this issue?

Thanks!

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