When using the command line, paths should be specified with Windows backslashes, as you would expect. However, paths specified within properties files must be specified with UNIX-style forward slashes. The example in the previous section correctly shows the command line using Windows-style backslashes to specify the bulkLoad.properties file. However, any paths WITHIN the bulkLoad.properties file must use forward slashes, such as: bulkLoader.partsDir=C:/BulkLoad_Test/CAD_files