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Embedded backslash in config dir name breaks Dropbox on Mac

See original GitHub issue

The runner creates a directory, ~/.config/GitHub\ActionsService/ on Mac and Linux. Dropbox chokes on this:

DropboxError

Is the embedded backslash intended? While Dropbox ought to be able to handle it, it seems a little pathological. 😃

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Created a year ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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ChristopherHXcommented, Apr 20, 2022

@ruvceskistefan I guess you already wrote an unmerged fix for this issue https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/1617, it just needs to be merged.

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ruvceskistefancommented, Apr 6, 2022

Hi @dogweather, Thanks for reported issue! Backslash is certainly not intended here, I’ll investigate the cause and we’ll solve the problem.

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