diff --git a/builtin_apps/PyBasic/PyBasic changes.txt b/builtin_apps/PyBasic/PyBasic changes.txt
index 6cb7e44..0e8a408 100644
--- a/builtin_apps/PyBasic/PyBasic changes.txt	
+++ b/builtin_apps/PyBasic/PyBasic changes.txt	
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ New: print_exception(e,e,e.__traceback__ if hasattr(e,'__traceback__') else None
 Added the following import (line 28):
 import os
 
-Added command to set current directory to folder loaded program is loaded from (line 236,237):
-if file.rfind('/') != -1:
+Added command to set current directory to folder loaded program is loaded from (line 236-239):
+if file.rfind('/') == 0:
+    os.chdir('/')
+elif file.rfind('/') != -1:
     os.chdir(file[:file.rfind('/')])
 
diff --git a/builtin_apps/PyBasic/program.py b/builtin_apps/PyBasic/program.py
index 9550641..6d69aea 100644
--- a/builtin_apps/PyBasic/program.py
+++ b/builtin_apps/PyBasic/program.py
@@ -233,7 +233,9 @@ class Program:
         except OSError:
             raise OSError("Could not read file")
 
-        if file.rfind('/') != -1:
+        if file.rfind('/') == 0:
+            os.chdir("/")
+        elif file.rfind('/') != -1:
             os.chdir(file[:file.rfind('/')])
 
     def add_stmt(self, tokenlist):