Hi, This is my first post, so please advise me if this is not the correct place to post my question. This is my question: I have the following directory pattern (Dir1 is the parent directory, and the rest are the child files/subdirectories): Dir1 file1 file2 .file3 subdir1 .subdir2 the following code will go through the Dir1, and it will fail in creating the "path" when it reaches ".file3" or ".subdir2" boost::filesystem:ath dir1_path(filepath.c_str()); How should I create a path to a directory that (for example) has the following path? /root/my_docs/pgg/.file1 filesystem::path works just fine if I had to deal with (/root/my_docs/pgg/file1) instead of (/root/my_docs/pgg/.file1) !!! apparently when the file/directory starts with '.', I cannot get filesystem::path to behave properly. please advise, thanks, Rudy