# X_URL_PATHNAME_AS_PATH

## Means

a source reads `.pathname` off a URL built from `import.meta.url` (or destructures it, or builds a `file://` URL from a string) and uses it as a filesystem path

## Typical cause

`new URL('..', import.meta.url).pathname` percent-encodes a space (`%20`) and answers `/C:/…` on Windows, so the path names nothing

## Fix

`Bun.fileURLToPath(new URL('<specifier>', import.meta.url))`, or `join(import.meta.dir, '<segment>')`

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