### Please describe the problem.

When creating a new remote with the webapp (on Windows) and setting the remote repository directory as "~/wherever", everything seems to be going well up until pressing the button to create an unencrypted repository. There is no output from either the terminal or error messages displayed in the browser.

On the remote server, it turns out that it is creating a directory named ~ within $HOME so that there is a $HOME/~/wherever directory.

Omitting the leading ~/ correctly creates $HOME/wherever and the setup proceeds as it should.

### What steps will reproduce the problem?

Try to create a remote repository with directory "~/wherever".

### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

OS: Windows 7

Output of git annex version:

git-annex version: 5.20140517-gee56d21
build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feed
s Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E SH
A256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 WORM URL
remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web webdav tahoe glacier ddar ho
ok external

### Please provide any additional information below.

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> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]