Thanks Gilles.

I will open a jira issue to track this problem.

Here is the situation we ran into.

The filesystem resolver has the following patterns

            <ivy
pattern="${ivy.local.default.root}/${ivy.local.default.ivy.pattern}" />
            <artifact
pattern="${ivy.local.default.root}/${ivy.local.default.artifact.pattern}" />

    ivy.local.default.ivy.pattern is
"[organisation]/[module]/[type]s/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]
    ivy.local.default.artifact.pattern is
"[organisation]/[module]/[type]s/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"

and
   ivy.local.default.root is c:\downloads\Program Files (x86)\repo

When the resolver tries to look in the local repository the (x86) was
removed.

Jim