I submitted the following patch to the LocalFS maintainer not too long ago. LocalDirectory objects don't have _local_path set, so bobobase_modification_time() barfs when the new management interface tries to display the mod time. --- LocalFS.py-dist Wed Jan 17 14:27:45 2001 +++ LocalFS.py Wed Jan 17 14:33:21 2001 @@ -976,6 +976,8 @@ except 'Forbidden': pass def bobobase_modification_time(self): + if not hasattr(self, '_local_path'): + self._local_path = self.basepath t = os.stat(self._local_path)[stat.ST_MTIME] return DateTime(t) @@ -1179,7 +1181,7 @@ """Change the properties of the file system object.""" self.title = title - self.basepath = os.path.normpath(basepath) + self.basepath = self._local_path = os.path.normpath(basepath) self.default_document = default_document or self.default_document self.tree_view = self.isPrincipiaFolderish = tree_view self.catalog = catalog