portia (scrapy/slybot) errors on windows - python-2.7

Question

i installed portia and got it to work i annotated some websites (looks really good)
but when i try to run the spiders i get some errors and nothing gets crawled
im running python 2.7.6 on win 7
C:\Python27\Scripts>python portiacrawl C:\portia\slyd\data\projects\new_project
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "portiacrawl", line 7, in <module>
execfile(__file__)
File "C:\portia\slybot\bin\portiacrawl", line 56, in <module>
main()
File "C:\portia\slybot\bin\portiacrawl", line 54, in main
subprocess.call(command_spec)
File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 522, in call
return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 957, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] O sistema nÒo conseguiu localizar o ficheiro especificado

Answer 1

I am troubleshooting portia on Windows 8.1 and encountered the same error, exactly.
Try running 'python portiacrawl' by itself to determine if there is a subsequent menu. You should be able to see Help info on 'portiacrawl'. I suspect that you need to name the [spider] & [options] as well as change the terminal directory to see the output from the crawler. I suggest trying the following but rename [spider] to actual name of your spider w/o brackets:
Enter into terminal: C:\portia\slyd\data\projects <------Change to proper directory in cmd
Make sure you are in the terminal directory "C:\portia\slyd\data\projects"
The Cmd propmpt should look like: C:\portia\slyd\data\projects> <----waiting for portia initiation.
Enter into terminal:
python portiacrawl C:\portia\slyd\data\projects\new_project [spider] -t csv -o test.csv; or,
python portiacrawl [spider] -t csv -o test.csv
Report back. I am curious as to the terminal response. Did it initiate portiacrawl & return "access is denied."