[smitchell6879]

As mentioned, you need to use the virtual file system stuff.
https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/group__py...mcvfs.html

There is no functionality to read or write files via the vfs system?

Alright so in my add-on I have the user select a download folder. I the user want to use my network windows share so I selected it. Kodi gives me a link smb:// server/ folder. . now I with my add-on have at link and I want to join that link to a subfolder and mkdir if not exist or if it does I want to listdir. How would I do this with vfs my testing so far has failed. So I was going to result to pysmb as a last ditch hope to use my windows share.