diff --git a/utils/dataloaders.py b/utils/dataloaders.py
index 54d3f7bbba00..0418293a6e21 100644
--- a/utils/dataloaders.py
+++ b/utils/dataloaders.py
@@ -470,8 +470,8 @@ def __init__(self,
                     with open(p) as t:
                         t = t.read().strip().splitlines()
                         parent = str(p.parent) + os.sep
-                        f += [x.replace('./', parent) if x.startswith('./') else x for x in t]  # local to global path
-                        # f += [p.parent / x.lstrip(os.sep) for x in t]  # local to global path (pathlib)
+                        f += [x.replace('./', parent, 1) if x.startswith('./') else x for x in t]  # to global path
+                        # f += [p.parent / x.lstrip(os.sep) for x in t]  # to global path (pathlib)
                 else:
                     raise FileNotFoundError(f'{prefix}{p} does not exist')
             self.im_files = sorted(x.replace('/', os.sep) for x in f if x.split('.')[-1].lower() in IMG_FORMATS)