Directory can only be accessed with explorer

Question

This is a strange situation that I don't really know why it's happening.

Let's say I have these directories (names are fake but the structure is real):

a
+- b
|  + file1
|  + file2
|
+- c
   + file3
   + file4

I can navigate to all three directories without problems in the explorer. However when I try to cd into b and c, I got this

C:\PathToUser\a> cd "b"
The system cannot find the path specified.

This is strange because they are clearly there:

 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is SOME-NUMS

 Directory of C:\PathToUser\a

12/12/2017  11:56 PM    <DIR>          .
12/12/2017  11:56 PM    <DIR>          ..
01/29/2012  10:54 PM    <DIR>          b
01/29/2012  10:32 PM    <DIR>          c
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  SOME bytes free

What I wanted to do is to remove those two directories, but I couldn't remove them with both cmd and explorer. Are the directories corrupted? Any suggestion is appreciated, thanks.

Real rather than hypothetical names would help: spaces need quotes around path name, and other characters can be problematic. — DrMoishe Pippik, Dec 13 '17 at 06:31
@DrMoishePippik The directory names do include spaces (0x20) but that's about it. The "b" in cd "b" is autocompleted by pressing tab so the name should be accurate. — Derek 朕會功夫, Dec 13 '17 at 06:32
@grawity For some reason they do! (In fact it has two spaces) I have no idea why there are spaces at the end. The directories were probably generated at some point. — Derek 朕會功夫, Dec 13 '17 at 07:21

Directory can only be accessed with explorer

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