From 3b7c7daa76cbab1ec601ef65dfafef143c34702f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:22:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] improve UNC path handling (#2126)

always call 'abspath()' on the directory path to handle cases when the
current working directory is UNC and 'base-directory' is relative.
---
 CHANGELOG.md          | 2 ++
 gallery_dl/path.py    | 3 ++-
 gallery_dl/version.py | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1dc4a218..fdebb172 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
 ## 1.20.0 - 2021-12-29
 ### Additions
 - [500px] add `favorite` extractor ([#1927](https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/1927))
diff --git a/gallery_dl/path.py b/gallery_dl/path.py
index 9e9e9831..15db67f1 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/path.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/path.py
@@ -178,10 +178,11 @@ class PathFormat():
 
         if WINDOWS:
             # Enable longer-than-260-character paths
+            directory = os.path.abspath(directory)
             if directory.startswith("\\\\"):
                 directory = "\\\\?\\UNC\\" + directory[2:]
             else:
-                directory = "\\\\?\\" + os.path.abspath(directory)
+                directory = "\\\\?\\" + directory
 
             # abspath() in Python 3.7+ removes trailing path separators (#402)
             if directory[-1] != sep:
diff --git a/gallery_dl/version.py b/gallery_dl/version.py
index b5114e80..8ce9d18f 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/version.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/version.py
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
 # published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
-__version__ = "1.20.0"
+__version__ = "1.20.1-dev"