diff --git a/packages/lib/WebDavApi.js b/packages/lib/WebDavApi.js
index a3c9ca161..7bc9cd5cf 100644
--- a/packages/lib/WebDavApi.js
+++ b/packages/lib/WebDavApi.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const URL = require('url-parse');
 const { _ } = require('./locale');
 const { rtrimSlashes } = require('./path-utils');
 const base64 = require('base-64');
-
+const { ltrimSlashes } = require('./path-utils');
 
 // Note that the d: namespace (the DAV namespace) is specific to Nextcloud. The RFC for example uses "D:" however
 // we make all the tags and attributes lowercase so we handle both the Nextcloud style and RFC. Hopefully other
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ class WebDavApi {
 		if (options.path) fetchOptions.path = options.path;
 		if (body) fetchOptions.body = body;
 		fetchOptions.ignoreTlsErrors = this.options_.ignoreTlsErrors();
-		const url = `${this.baseUrl()}/${path}`;
+		const url = `${this.baseUrl()}/${ltrimSlashes(path)}`;
 
 		if (shim.httpAgent(url)) fetchOptions.agent = shim.httpAgent(url);