it seems that the new wallet not like folder with é or è I have an é in my folder name, and unable to install the file of the first launch on it. Other folders no problem
Seems a problem with UTF8 in file names. Strange. What OS?
I got the same issue but I'm on Windows 7 SP1 64bits.
@alphateam, arfeniel: Can anyone suffering from the 'datadir cannot contain special characters' (when choosing datadir through GUI) problem help testing: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3935 ? A test build is available.