diff --git a/sync.c b/sync.c
index 8b9c6b0..0f6b63d 100644
--- a/sync.c
+++ b/sync.c
@@ -2270,7 +2270,11 @@ int sync_prequeue_loadmark
 
 	switch ( ctx_p->flags[MODE] ) {
 		case MODE_SIMPLE:
-			return SAFE ( sync_dosync ( path_rel, event_mask, ctx_p, indexes_p ), debug ( 1, "fpath == \"%s\"; evmask == 0x%o", path_rel, event_mask ); return -1; );
+			if ( path_full == NULL ) {
+				*path_buf_p   = sync_path_rel2abs ( ctx_p, path_rel,  -1, path_buf_len_p, *path_buf_p );
+				path_full    = *path_buf_p;
+			}
+			return SAFE ( sync_dosync ( path_full, event_mask, ctx_p, indexes_p ), debug ( 1, "fpath == \"%s\"; evmask == 0x%o", path_full, event_mask ); return -1; );
 
 		default:
 			break;