[jmarshall]

The main problem there is we don't go through normal POSIX file operations without first bastardising things through the win32 API..

It might work nonetheless, but I dunno if I'd rely on it.

[wsnipex]

This works:
<path pathversion="1">special://home/../Videos/</path>

the question is how to handle it, if the path doesn't exist. Currently we pop a notice "path not found or invalid", maybe it would be better to to check if sources are available on startup and only show those that are there?