# Accessing projects on Linux side of WSL from Windows Pinegrow.exe

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/accessing-projects-on-linux-side-of-wsl-from-windows-pinegrow-exe/4440>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [August 12, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/accessing-projects-on-linux-side-of-wsl-from-windows-pinegrow-exe/4440 "2020-08-12T20:41:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Candle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@Candle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Candle)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/accessing-projects-on-linux-side-of-wsl-from-windows-pinegrow-exe/4440/1 "2020-08-12T20:41:32Z")

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My current Windows 10 dev setup uses Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) in command line mode; I don’t run an X11 server. Visual Studio Code works well as an IDE for projects in the Linux directories. Pinegrow throws an error:  
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File was not found  
The file file://wsl%24/Ubuntu-20.04/home/myID/devel/websites/aWebsite/index.html could not be read. The error reported was Error: UNKNOWN: unknown error, stat ‘\wsl%24\Ubuntu-20.04\home\myID\devel\websites\aWebsite\index.html’.

Reasons for the file not being found could be:

Pinegrow doesn’t have permissions to access the file.  
The file is located on a network share with strange access path (tell us if that’s the case)  
Using semicolons ;, ? or # in file path is not supported.  
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Any chance this is a trivial problem for you to fix? (The “%24” in “wsl%24” above looks like the problem to me … wsl$ is the usual pathing.) While there are obvious workarounds, it would be very convenient for Pinegrow to work like VSC and emacs in this hybrid mode.

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