diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a1d9ea7f..ec7106fa 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.00.0 (2012-08-13 11:02:40) dev
+Version 2.00.0 (2012-08-13 13:29:54) dev
diff --git a/gluon/dal.py b/gluon/dal.py
index ac6d957d..042541ce 100644
--- a/gluon/dal.py
+++ b/gluon/dal.py
@@ -3866,7 +3866,8 @@ class GoogleSQLAdapter(UseDatabaseStoredFile,MySQLAdapter):
         self.pool_size = pool_size
         self.folder = folder
         self.db_codec = db_codec
-        self.folder = folder or '$HOME/'+thread.folder.split('/applications/',1)[1]
+        self.folder = folder or '$HOME'+os.sep+thread.folder.split(
+            os.sep+'applications'+os.sep,1)[1]
 
         m = re.compile('^(?P<instance>.*)/(?P<db>.*)$').match(self.uri[len('google:sql://'):])
         if not m: