diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index b4bb31e..44210ed 100644
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ echo "performing pre start check"
 [[ -z "${APP_SECRET_KEY}" ]] && echo "APP_SECRET_KEY not set" && exit 1
 [[ -z "${APP_DATABASE_URI}" ]] && echo "APP_DATABASE_URI not set" && exit 1
 # check if client is mounted
-[ ! -d "~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient" ] && echo "LU client not found" && exit 1
-[ ! -d "~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res" ] && echo "LU client is missing res folder" && exit 1
-[ ! -d "~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/locale" ] && echo "LU client is missing locale folder" && exit 1
+[ ! -d ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient ] && echo "LU client not found" && exit 1
+[ ! -d ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res ] && echo "LU client is missing res folder" && exit 1
+[ ! -d ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/locale ] && echo "LU client is missing locale folder" && exit 1
 # check if brickdb needs to be unzipped
-if [ -f "~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/brickdb.zip" ]; then
+if [ -f ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/brickdb.zip ]; then
     echo "brickdb.zip found"
     unzip ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/brickdb.zip
     rm ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/brickdb.zip
     echo "brickdb.zip unpacked and removed"
 fi
 # rename ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/CDServer.sqlite
-if [ -f "~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/CDServer.sqlite" ]; then
+if [ -f ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/CDServer.sqlite ]; then
     echo "moving CDServer.sqlite to cdclient.sqlite"
     mv ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/CDServer.sqlite ~/NexusDashboard/app/luclient/res/cdclient.sqlite
 fi