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