Path mismatch when "Auto-GPT" is stored on the network device.

[GHRnew]

Running in VSC on windows 10 PC.
Auto-GPT was continuously having problem with accessing "the working directory".
So I gave the Auto-GPT following task.

AI Name: try to access the working directory
try to access the working directory is: an AI that will check if the working directory can be accessed by writing a test text file to it. If not, suggest how to repair the error
Goal 1: Write a dummy test file to a working directory
Goal 2: If this is not possible analyze why and give suggestion how to repair mistake
Goal 3: If writing a dummy test file to a working directory was possible confirm
Goal 4: Shutdown upon achieving your goals

Following error appears during the run:

Attempted to access path '\djangology\homes\django\PAPA\AI\OpenAI\020_AutoGPT\Auto-GPT-richbeales-patch-2\auto_gpt_workspace\test.txt' outside of working directory 'W:\django\PAPA\AI\OpenAI\020_AutoGPT\Auto-GPT-richbeales-patch-2\auto_gpt_workspace

After some debugging, I found the problem.
I added the two print statement in the safe_path_join within the ./autogpt/workspace.py:

def safe_path_join(base: Path, *paths: str | Path) -> Path:
"""Join one or more path components, asserting the resulting path is within the workspace.

Args:
    base (Path): The base path
    *paths (str): The paths to join to the base path

Returns:
    Path: The joined path
"""
joined_path = base.joinpath(*paths).resolve()

print(f"Base path: {base}")
print(f"Joined path: {joined_path}")

if not joined_path.is_relative_to(base):
    raise ValueError(f"Attempted to access path '{joined_path}' outside of working directory '{base}'.")

return joined_path

This resulted with following printout:

Base path: W:\django\PAPA\AI\OpenAI\020_AutoGPT\Auto-GPT-stable\auto_gpt_workspace
Joined path: \djangology\homes\django\PAPA\AI\OpenAI\020_AutoGPT\Auto-GPT-stable\auto_gpt_workspace.

Solution was to add
base = base.resolve(strict=False)
before
joined_path = base.joinpath(*paths).resolve()
in the named file.

Now it works, both paths are the same

Base path: \djangology\homes\django\PAPA\AI\OpenAI\020_AutoGPT\Auto-GPT-stable\auto_gpt_workspace
Joined path: \djangology\homes\django\PAPA\AI\OpenAI\020_AutoGPT\Auto-GPT-stable\auto_gpt_workspace\

The final safe_path_join is as follows, with removed my two print statement and added one line to set the common value for the path:

def safe_path_join(base: Path, *paths: str | Path) -> Path:
"""Join one or more path components, asserting the resulting path is within the workspace.

Args:
    base (Path): The base path
    *paths (str): The paths to join to the base path> 
Returns:
    Path: The joined path
"""

base = base.resolve(strict=False)
joined_path = base.joinpath(*paths).resolve()

if not joined_path.is_relative_to(base):
    raise ValueError(f"Attempted to access path '{joined_path}' outside of working directory '{base}'.")

return joined_path