diff --git a/ui/TODO.otl b/ui/TODO.otl
index 920dcc5e..ef48f11b 100755
--- a/ui/TODO.otl
+++ b/ui/TODO.otl
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Roadmap
 
 
 [_] 27% Gen 3 current todo
-	[_] 55% High priority
+	[_] 54% High priority
 		[_] Q: how do we mark unsorted sections in base ribbon after aligning?
 		| - there is a big gap in the ribbon below, but it's not visible...
 		| - can we "mark" big gaps? ...what's the threshold of "big"?
@@ -387,6 +387,9 @@ Roadmap
 			[_] remove extra and repetitive actions
 			[_] caching config
 		[_] side-by side view...
+		[X] BUG: something wrong with the export dialog...
+		| when a different destination is specified nothing is copied 
+		| form the base ribbon...
 		[X] BUG: need to prioretize marks loading...
 		| if no markes.json is empty then localstorage marks will get 
 		| loaded...
diff --git a/ui/data.js b/ui/data.js
index 6240c646..e6f9d895 100755
--- a/ui/data.js
+++ b/ui/data.js
@@ -580,10 +580,12 @@ function setBaseURL(url){
 // 		- return relative paths as-is
 //
 // NOTE: mode can be either 'absolute' (default) or 'relative'...
-function normalizePath(url, base, mode){
+function normalizePath(url, base, mode, do_unescape){
 	base = base == null ? getBaseURL() : base
 	//mode = /^\./.test(base) && mode == null ? 'relative' : null
 	mode = mode == null ? 'absolute' : mode
+	// XXX is this the correct default?
+	do_unescape = do_unescape == null ? true : do_unescape
 
 	res = ''
 
@@ -626,7 +628,11 @@ function normalizePath(url, base, mode){
 	// XXX legacy support...
 	res = res.replace('.ImageGridCache', CACHE_DIR)
 
-	return res
+	if(do_unescape){
+		return unescape(res)
+	} else {
+		return res
+	}
 }
 
 
@@ -1547,7 +1553,6 @@ function updateRibbonOrder(no_reload_viewer){
 }
 
 
-
 // Action wrapper of alignDataToRibbon(...)
 //
 // Align ribbons to the current ribbon.
diff --git a/ui/info.js b/ui/info.js
index e776ace1..68d31a25 100755
--- a/ui/info.js
+++ b/ui/info.js
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function updateGlobalImageInfo(image){
 			// path...
 			'<span class="expanding-text path">'+
 				'<span class="shown">'+
-					data.path.split('/').pop() +
+					unescape(data.path.split('/').pop()) +
 				'</span>'+
 				'<span class="hidden" '+
 						'style="position:absolute;'+
diff --git a/ui/ui.js b/ui/ui.js
index 6b2038ae..a261ed75 100755
--- a/ui/ui.js
+++ b/ui/ui.js
@@ -325,7 +325,6 @@ function getStatus(){
 }
 
 
-// XXX move to ui.js?
 function makeIndicator(text){
 	return $('<span class="indicator expanding-text">'+
 				'<span class="hidden">'+ text +'</span>'+