diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 1a2261de..8785eeca 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ const toUnix = (string) => {
 // TODO: this is not equal to path-normalize module - investigate why
 const normalizePathToUnix = (path) => toUnix(sysPath.normalize(toUnix(path)));
 
-const normalizeIgnored = (cwd) => (path) => {
+const normalizeIgnored = (cwd = '') => (path) => {
   if (typeof path !== 'string') return path;
   return normalizePathToUnix(sysPath.isAbsolute(path) ? path : sysPath.join(cwd, path));
 };
@@ -608,13 +608,15 @@ _isIgnored(path, stats) {
     const cwd = this.options.cwd;
     const ign = this.options.ignored;
 
-    let ignored = ign;
-    if (cwd && ign) ignored = ign.map(normalizeIgnored(cwd));
+    const ignored = ign &&  ign.map(normalizeIgnored(cwd));
     const paths = arrify(ignored)
       .filter((path) => typeof path === 'string' && !isGlob(path))
       .map((path) => path + '/**');
     this._userIgnored = anymatch(
-      this._getGlobIgnored().concat(ignored).concat(paths)
+      this._getGlobIgnored()
+        .map(normalizeIgnored(cwd))
+        .concat(ignored)
+        .concat(paths)
     );
   }
 
diff --git a/lib/nodefs-handler.js b/lib/nodefs-handler.js
index 31140b67..88b52c3f 100644
--- a/lib/nodefs-handler.js
+++ b/lib/nodefs-handler.js
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ _handleFile(file, stats, initialAdd, callback) {
   });
 
   // emit an add event if we're supposed to
-  if (!(initialAdd && this.fsw.options.ignoreInitial)) {
+  if (!(initialAdd && this.fsw.options.ignoreInitial) && this.fsw._isntIgnored(file)) {
     if (!this.fsw._throttle('add', file, 0)) return;
     this.fsw._emit('add', file, stats);
   }
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index 5cbad8c5..bba4d59e 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -1818,24 +1818,26 @@ const runTests = function(baseopts) {
       if (!macosFswatch) spy.should.have.been.calledOnce;
     });
     it('should ignore unwatched paths that are a subset of watched paths', async () => {
+      const subdirRel = upath.relative(process.cwd(), getFixturePath('subdir'));
+      const unlinkFile = getFixturePath('unlink.txt');
+      const addFile = getFixturePath('subdir/add.txt');
+      const changedFile = getFixturePath('change.txt');
       let watcher = chokidar_watch(currentDir, options);
       const spy = await aspy(watcher, 'all');
 
-      await delay();
       // test with both relative and absolute paths
-      const subdirRel = upath.relative(process.cwd(), getFixturePath('subdir'));
       watcher.unwatch([subdirRel, getGlobPath('unl*')]);
 
       await delay();
-      await fs_unlink(getFixturePath('unlink.txt'));
-      await write(getFixturePath('subdir/add.txt'), Date.now());
-      await write(getFixturePath('change.txt'), Date.now());
+      await fs_unlink(unlinkFile);
+      await write(addFile, Date.now());
+      await write(changedFile, Date.now());
       await waitFor([spy.withArgs('change')]);
 
       await delay(300);
-      spy.should.have.been.calledWith('change', getFixturePath('change.txt'));
-      spy.should.not.have.been.calledWith('add', getFixturePath('subdir/add.txt'));
-      spy.should.not.have.been.calledWith('unlink');
+      spy.should.have.been.calledWith('change', changedFile);
+      spy.should.not.have.been.calledWith('add', addFile);
+      spy.should.not.have.been.calledWith('unlink', unlinkFile);
       if (!macosFswatch) spy.should.have.been.calledOnce;
     });
     it('should unwatch relative paths', async () => {