diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c61e96a5..41198dc7 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # rsconnect (development version)
 
 * Restore the `LC_TIME` locale after computing an RFC-2616 date. (#1035)
+* Address a problem inspecting Quarto content when the file names and paths
+  needed to be quoted. The resulting manifest lacked information about the
+  Quarto runtime, which caused difficult-to-understand deployment errors.
+  (#1037)
 
 # rsconnect 1.2.0
 
diff --git a/R/appMetadata-quarto.R b/R/appMetadata-quarto.R
index 2b5290f0..5e682731 100644
--- a/R/appMetadata-quarto.R
+++ b/R/appMetadata-quarto.R
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ quartoInspect <- function(appDir = NULL, appPrimaryDoc = NULL) {
   paths <- c(appDir, file.path(appDir, appPrimaryDoc))
 
   for (path in paths) {
-    args <- c("inspect", path.expand(path))
+    args <- c("inspect", shQuote(path.expand(path)))
     inspect <- tryCatch(
       {
         json <- suppressWarnings(system2(quarto, args, stdout = TRUE, stderr = TRUE))
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-appMetadata-quarto.R b/tests/testthat/test-appMetadata-quarto.R
index 18fd922d..86ae50a3 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-appMetadata-quarto.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-appMetadata-quarto.R
@@ -94,6 +94,31 @@ test_that("quartoInspect identifies Quarto documents", {
   expect_true(all(c("quarto", "engines") %in% names(inspect)))
 })
 
+test_that("quartoInspect processes content within paths containing spaces", {
+  parent <- withr::local_tempdir()
+  dir <- file.path(parent, "space dir")
+  dir.create(dir)
+  writeLines(c(
+    "---",
+    "title: space path",
+    "---",
+    "this is a document within a path having spaces."
+  ), file.path(dir, "index.qmd"))
+  inspect <- quartoInspect(dir, "index.qmd")
+  expect_equal(inspect$engines, c("markdown"))
+})
+
+test_that("quartoInspect processes content with filenames containing spaces", {
+  dir <- local_temp_app(list("space file.qmd" = c(
+    "---",
+    "title: space name",
+    "---",
+    "this is a document with a filename having spaces."
+  )))
+  inspect <- quartoInspect(dir, "space file.qmd")
+  expect_equal(inspect$engines, c("markdown"))
+})
+
 test_that("quartoInspect returns NULL on non-quarto Quarto content", {
   skip_if_no_quarto()