GetPrivateProfileString failed

I have a code that was working for years without problems
It was reading some ini-file using
GetPrivateProfileString and GetPrivateProfileInt functions

Now - I have to change the place of the ini-file
so instead of "./setup.ini"

function now receives a new location like "../WorkDir/ff44198ee855e6aaa8ea845a894e972b/setup.ini"

the current directory is not changed, and file location is also chacked (I open in the explorer the current dir of the process and add to it the above string - as a result the file is opened in textpad)

But the GetPrivateProfileXXX functions all fail returning the default values provided instead of stored in the ini-file

I was trying to apply GetShortPath function before passing the path to GetPrivateProfileXXX

path was transformed correctly but result has not changed

Even stranger - is was working with this paths once, but after last compilation I could not make it work, and I could not retreive any reasonable error code...

Rebuild all does nnot helps.

Have somebody any idea what could be a source of the problem?

I would first rule out a ill-formed ini file as the root of the problem. Try an extremely simple ini file and see if you stop getting default values.

gg

ini file was not changed from the working version
what was changed and may affect this strange behavior (but i do not understand really how - I will check my guess when I get to work) - I have added some assert in a part of the code that does not intersect in any way with the code parsing ini and it does not executed - application exitted before getting to the code where assert is located

Ok just to close the issue.
The problem is solved.

And still do not know exactly - what is the sorce of the problem.

One of the key changes:
The current process dir was set using mapped drive like
folder
e:\views was shared and mapped to l: drive
and current folder was set to l:\debug\bin

after changing the current folder to
e:\views\debug\bin problem does not occure anymore.

I do not know why fopen works fine with the previos settings, while GetPrivateProfileString fails sighlently.

(As a side note - C# application with the same settings of the current folder behaves even more strangely - starts ok from e: and give a security exception when i try to start the same exe using l: drive)