diff --git a/functions.py b/functions.py
index 22736e3..846d037 100644
--- a/functions.py
+++ b/functions.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ except:
 __settings__ = xbmcaddon.Addon(id='plugin.video.torrenter')
 __language__ = __settings__.getLocalizedString
 ROOT = __settings__.getAddonInfo('path')  # .decode('utf-8').encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
-userStorageDirectory = __settings__.getSetting("storage")
+userStorageDirectory = xbmc.translatePath(__settings__.getSetting("storage"))
 torrentFilesDirectory = 'torrents'
 USERAGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0"
 __addonpath__ = __settings__.getAddonInfo('path')
@@ -2265,4 +2265,4 @@ def get_item():
     })
 
     item.setInfo(type='Video', infoLabels=infoLabels)
-    return item
\ No newline at end of file
+    return item