File names must not contain '\'

Are you on MacOS ? Then this might explain it:

You can safely uninstall Duplicati. It stores all data in LOCALAPPDATA\Duplicati (~/.config/Duplicati on Linux/MacOS), so install/uninstall does not remove these files.

If you install an older version, make sure to wipe the versions in the updates folder, otherwise Duplicati will attempt to load those instead.

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