Goober question about path.txt

[Droplede]

Argh. Please, please forgive my ignorance before reading further. I can get my mods to work if I edit files in the Data directory directly, but I can't seem to get the game to read my dedicated mod directory through the path.txt file. What's up? I've got a single space after the = sign in the pathname, and I've tried every combination of pathname (i.e. just the folder name, the drive designation through the folder name, and every backslash combination in between). Help!?