From 635ea3f23117c3288bafe1138d67eb1845cde48c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "U-DESKTOP-HQME86J\\marco" <marco.carrarini@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 08:57:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix #229

---
 lib/dtutils/file.lua | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/dtutils/file.lua b/lib/dtutils/file.lua
index 1d9fa5b..9fa2c26 100644
--- a/lib/dtutils/file.lua
+++ b/lib/dtutils/file.lua
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ function dtutils_file.check_if_file_exists(filepath)
   local result = false
   if (dt.configuration.running_os == 'windows') then
     filepath = string.gsub(filepath, '[\\/]+', '\\')
-    local p = io.popen("if exist " .. filepath .. " (echo 'yes') else (echo 'no')")
+    local p = io.popen("if exist " .. dtutils_file.sanitize_filename(filepath) .. " (echo 'yes') else (echo 'no')")
     local ans = p:read("*all")
     p:close()
     if string.match(ans, "yes") then