and you are doing this with a content type reader that is not in the monogame assembly? yeah. That must mean the File I/O operations provided by SONY allow for absolute pathing. You can't set RootDirectoryFullPath to tilde (~)? Such as "~/mycontent.xnb" ?? I am trying to think of a fun exploit where this public Location makes it easier, but I recall that the Vita was very strict about file system access.