Sites can only be saved in C:\Users

Bug Summary

When creating or importing a site, the user is forced to use only subdirectories of C:\Users)

2021-03-27 21_27_17-Window

Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a new site.
  2. For “Local site path” choose any directory besides ~/Local Sites
  3. Error comes up as seen in screenshot.

Environment Info

Describe your environment.

  • What Operating System are you using? Windows 10 Pro x64
  • What versions of site software (Nginx, Apache, PHP, MySQL) is used? Tried all, it applies to any of these.
  • What version of Local is installed? 6.1.5+5536 (has been happening since I started using Local over a year ago)

Supporting info

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