Loop, files and (Back)slashes

[Peter2]

I made a mistake with (back)slashes, and I'm curious why I get the results I got.

I defined a folder, using slashes instead of backslashes:

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ziel1 := A_AppData . "/Autodesk/ApplicationPlugins/"

In this folders, there are the subfolders "A.bundle", "B.bundle_paused" and "C"
Then I looped the folder, to get its subfolders

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    Loop, Files, %ziel1%*.*, D
    {
        MsgBox %A_LoopFileName%
        If A_LoopFileExt in bundle,bundle_paused    ; 
        {
            XML_File = %A_LoopFileDir%\PackageContents.xml
            msgbox %XML_File%

The first MsgBox showed me (step by step) the folders "A.bundle", "B.bundle_paused" and "C". That's fine
The second MsgBox was expected to show me the same value as "ziel1 plus filename", because the folders where found there. But I got only "C:\users\peter2\Appdata\packageContents.xml" (same result with A_LoopFileFullPath and A_LoopFileLongPath).

After I modified the slashes to backslashes everything was fine. Now I would like to know why the first step had no problems with the slashes, but the second step shortened the paths ...???

Thanks for your help.

[Exaskryz]

Consider the output from the SplitPath command:

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^8::
InputVar:= "C:\users\peter2\Appdata/Autodesk/ApplicationPlugins/"
SplitPath, InputVar, OutFileName, OutDir, OutExtension, OutNameNoExt, OutDrive
MsgBox % OutFileName "`n" OutDir "`n" OutExtension "`n" OutNameNoExt "`n" OutDrive
return

OutDir comes back as just C:\users\peter2\. I assume the built in variable A_LoopFileDir follows the same algorithm SplitPath does to determine the directory.

But when it was doing a loop file, it could handle the / in there as it queries an API that has support for that to navigate folders. I can type into my Windows Explorer "C:/Users/Exaskryz/Desktop" and be brought to the right location. Clicking on the navbar again will give me the corrected address with \ in there.

[Peter2]

Thanks for your help.
So it can be said that "Loop, Files" handles the path in another way than "A_LoopFileDir"?