{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/electron/issues/4171","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/electron/issues/4171/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/electron/issues/4171/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/electron/issues/4171/events","html_url":"https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/4171","id":127717563,"number":4171,"title":"Attempting to a specific project folder in Atom and VSCode adds the home directory instead","user":{"login":"Tyriar","id":2193314,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2193314?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar","html_url":"https://github.com/Tyriar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tyriar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-01-20T16:13:26Z","updated_at":"2016-01-21T16:33:21Z","closed_at":"2016-01-21T16:33:21Z","body":"Two cases have been reported for Atom/VSCode, both running Ubuntu 12.04. This issue was originally reported in https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/9320 and https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2115\r\n\r\n**Steps to reproduce:**\r\n\r\n1. Create a directory `~/test-dir`\r\n2. Launch `atom --safe`\r\n3. File > Add Project Folder\r\n4. Navigate to ~/test-dir and add it\r\n\r\n**Expected:**\r\n\r\n`~/test-dir` is added as a project folder\r\n\r\n**Actual:**\r\n\r\n`~` is added as a project folder\r\n\r\n**Notes:**\r\n\r\n- I've experienced this problem on both Atom 1.0.8 and 1.0.19, but only on my work PC (Ubuntu 12.04).\r\n- I have had to resort to using [project-manager](https://atom.io/packages/project-manager) to handle all project folders on my work PC which handles project folders just fine\r\n- Repeating steps 2-3 seems to attempt to re-add `~` (which does nothing)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/electron/issues/comments/173626289","html_url":"https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/4171#issuecomment-173626289","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/electron/issues/4171","id":173626289,"user":{"login":"zcbenz","id":639601,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/639601?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz","html_url":"https://github.com/zcbenz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zcbenz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":true},"created_at":"2016-01-21T16:33:21Z","updated_at":"2016-01-21T16:33:21Z","body":"This is not the first issue on this, [previous one](https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/1212) was closed as won't fix. I'm reopening the original issue since the request for it seems to be popular, and there is no harm doing that anyway."}}