### Please describe the problem. If I addurl file pointing to file:///C:/... it seems to work just fine, but then refuses to drop it stating that can't verify its presence. Please see two screenshots (sorry for not cut/paste here since it was already was painful -- debugging under Virtualbox in remote vnc through debconf internet which for some reason drops for me quite often): http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/gkrellShoot_08-19-15_220150.png http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/gkrellShoot_08-19-15_184052.png as screenshot shows, apparently wget is clueless about file:// targets on windows (while curl does fine) -- may be related ;-) ### What steps will reproduce the problem? addurl some file:///C:/ under windows pointing to existing file, and then try to drop that annexed file ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? windows 20150805 or so ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ # If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here. # If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log # End of transcript or log. """]]