Hello *! A short question: removing the leaf from the path using the remove_leaf() results in my case (MS VC7.1, boost 1.34.1) in the path with the trailing slash at the end. Next call to remove_leaf() results in removing this trailing slash, which is not correct... Is it a bug, if the doc states to remove_leaf: basic_path& remove_leaf(); Effects: If has_branch_path() then remove the last filename from the stored path. If that leaves the stored path with one or more trailing slash elements not representing root-directory, remove them. Many thanks, Ovanes