From ff239e9297b6a71d330e1f991bb6d75c2a2353ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Spendrin <ps_ml@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:49:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] remove the : on windows to have a valid path name BUG:287360
 (cherry picked from commit 0bf2e7c29aced29450a2ecb87a94e2d31b35f320)

---
 src/views/viewproperties.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/views/viewproperties.cpp b/src/views/viewproperties.cpp
index 10e420c85..8588bb238 100644
--- a/src/views/viewproperties.cpp
+++ b/src/views/viewproperties.cpp
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ ViewProperties::ViewProperties(const KUrl& url) :
         m_filePath = url.toLocalFile();
         const QFileInfo info(m_filePath);
         if (!info.isWritable() || !isPartOfHome(m_filePath)) {
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
+			// m_filePath probably begins with C:/ - the colon is not a valid character for paths though
+			m_filePath =  QDir::separator() + m_filePath.remove(QLatin1Char(':'));
+#endif
             m_filePath = destinationDir("local") + m_filePath;
         }
     } else {
-- 
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