How to remove escape extra slash in java properties

I am using the following to write some values to a .properties file. this code works with one small problem the value that gets written is like this

C\:/MyDir/MyDir2/Downloads/SomeOrder.txt

With an extra slash, this does not work. For the life of me I can't get rid of the extra slash. I have tried URLEncode.encode but no go.

Thanks for any help.

That's fine. That's how it's meant to be written to the properties file.

From the Properties.store documentation:

The key and element characters #, !, =, and : are written with a preceding backslash to ensure that they are properly loaded.

The code that reads the value from the properties file will unescape it appropriately.

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