diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 760b761e0..80de51e69 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
 	* resume data no longer has timestamps of files
 	* require C++11 to build libtorrent
 
+	* fix move_storage with save_path with a trailing slash
 	* fix tracker announce issue, advertising port 0 in secondary IPv6 announce
 	* fix missing boost/noncopyable.hpp includes
 	* fix python binding for torrent_info::creation_date()
diff --git a/include/libtorrent/aux_/path.hpp b/include/libtorrent/aux_/path.hpp
index 3277c0f29..2cd7301c3 100644
--- a/include/libtorrent/aux_/path.hpp
+++ b/include/libtorrent/aux_/path.hpp
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ namespace libtorrent {
 	TORRENT_EXTRA_EXPORT std::string remove_extension(std::string const& f);
 	TORRENT_EXTRA_EXPORT void replace_extension(std::string& f, std::string const& ext);
 	TORRENT_EXTRA_EXPORT bool is_root_path(std::string const& f);
-
+	TORRENT_EXTRA_EXPORT bool compare_path(std::string const& lhs, std::string const& rhs);
 
 	// internal used by create_torrent.hpp
 	TORRENT_EXTRA_EXPORT std::string parent_path(std::string const& f);
diff --git a/src/path.cpp b/src/path.cpp
index fd9d9d6b0..d54d8969d 100644
--- a/src/path.cpp
+++ b/src/path.cpp
@@ -596,6 +596,24 @@ namespace {
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	bool compare_path(std::string const& lhs, std::string const& rhs)
+	{
+		std::string::size_type const lhs_size = !lhs.empty()
+			&& (lhs[lhs.size()-1] == '/'
+#if defined(TORRENT_WINDOWS) || defined(TORRENT_OS2)
+			|| lhs[lhs.size()-1] == '\\'
+#endif
+			) ? lhs.size() - 1 : lhs.size();
+
+		std::string::size_type const rhs_size = !rhs.empty()
+			&& (rhs[rhs.size()-1] == '/'
+#if defined(TORRENT_WINDOWS) || defined(TORRENT_OS2)
+			|| rhs[rhs.size()-1] == '\\'
+#endif
+			) ? rhs.size() - 1 : rhs.size();
+		return lhs.compare(0, lhs_size, rhs, 0, rhs_size) == 0;
+	}
+
 	bool has_parent_path(std::string const& f)
 	{
 		if (f.empty()) return false;
diff --git a/src/storage_utils.cpp b/src/storage_utils.cpp
index fa52e7a82..4baed311c 100644
--- a/src/storage_utils.cpp
+++ b/src/storage_utils.cpp
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ namespace libtorrent { namespace aux {
 			error_code err;
 			std::string subdir = combine_path(save_path, s);
 
-			while (subdir != save_path && !err)
+			while (!compare_path(subdir, save_path) && !err)
 			{
 				remove(subdir, err);
 				subdir = parent_path(subdir);
diff --git a/test/test_file.cpp b/test/test_file.cpp
index f307a2cfa..dcd1397f1 100644
--- a/test/test_file.cpp
+++ b/test/test_file.cpp
@@ -205,6 +205,30 @@ TORRENT_TEST(paths)
 	TEST_EQUAL(is_root_path("/"), true);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef TORRENT_WINDOWS
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("c:\\blah\\", "c:\\blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("c:\\blah", "c:\\blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("c:\\blah/", "c:\\blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("c:\\blah", "c:\\blah\\"));
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("c:\\blah", "c:\\blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("c:\\blah", "c:\\blah/"));
+
+	TEST_CHECK(!compare_path("c:\\bla", "c:\\blah/"));
+	TEST_CHECK(!compare_path("c:\\bla", "c:\\blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(!compare_path("c:\\blah", "c:\\bla"));
+	TEST_CHECK(!compare_path("c:\\blah\\sdf", "c:\\blah"));
+#else
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("/blah", "/blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("/blah/", "/blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("/blah", "/blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(compare_path("/blah", "/blah/"));
+
+	TEST_CHECK(!compare_path("/bla", "/blah/"));
+	TEST_CHECK(!compare_path("/bla", "/blah"));
+	TEST_CHECK(!compare_path("/blah", "/bla"));
+	TEST_CHECK(!compare_path("/blah/sdf", "/blah"));
+#endif
+
 	// if has_parent_path() returns false
 	// parent_path() should return the empty string
 	TEST_EQUAL(parent_path("blah"), "");