Having trouble saving into a different directory

Greetings everyone,

I have started using the mod recently and realized pretty soon the output-folder size is becoming way to big for my standard output directory. So I wanted to move the whole thing to another drive with more storage available.

However, trying so the mod is throwing me an error I cannot make anything out of. Also I am not entirely sure how to properly work with spaces and \ in a cmd environment (having little to new developer experience). I was trying the "outfolder" "savename" thing.

My command line (note: P: is the drive I intend to store the output on):

python auto.py "P:\Eigener Ordner\script-output\FactorioMaps\MP mit Steffi und Viecher" "MP mit Steffi und Viecher"

in cmd:

checking for updates
factorio path: G:\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\factorio.exe
output folder: P:\Eigener Ordner\script-output\FactorioMaps\MP mit Steffi und Viecher
Enabling FactorioMaps mod
cleaning up
Building autorun.lua
Building config.ini
starting factorio
using steam launch hack.

In game main menu, after "loading the map" (basically):

__L0laapk3_FactorioMaps__/control.lua:5: __L0laapk3_FactorioMaps__/autorun.lua:12: invalid escape sequence near '\E'
stack traceback:
    [C]: in function 'require'
    __L0laapk3_FactorioMaps__/control.lua:5: in main chunk```

Additional notes:

the "escape near \E" makes me think something is wrong with my masking of the directory
I have previously created snapshots with this save game with standard output-folder and with --dayonly modification. As far as I understand --dayonly is only required during initial snapshot creation.
I moved the previous output (containing 4 snapshots already) to a different directory and am now try to create a new snapshot into the new directory

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