diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 29dfbb7..3522431 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: alabaster.base
 Title: Save Bioconductor Objects to File
-Version: 1.7.3
-Date: 2025-01-19
+Version: 1.7.4
+Date: 2025-01-23
 Authors@R: person("Aaron", "Lun", role=c("aut", "cre"), email="infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards@gmail.com")
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Description: 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-cloneDirectory.R b/tests/testthat/test-cloneDirectory.R
index 7ecf298..c33c738 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-cloneDirectory.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-cloneDirectory.R
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ test_that("cloneDirectory symlinks are absolute", {
     expect_identical(readLines(file.path(dest, "stuff", "whee.txt")), as.character(1:10))
     expect_identical(readLines(file.path(dest, "stuff", "blah", "kanon.txt")), "air")
 
-    cleaned <- absolutizePath(src)
+    cleaned <- file.path(absolutizePath(getwd()), basename(src)) # need to clean the path for a valid comparison.
     expect_identical(Sys.readlink(file.path(dest, "foobar.txt")), file.path(cleaned, "foobar.txt"))
     expect_identical(Sys.readlink(file.path(dest, "stuff", "whee.txt")), file.path(cleaned, "stuff", "whee.txt"))
     expect_identical(Sys.readlink(file.path(dest, "stuff", "blah", "kanon.txt")), file.path(cleaned, "stuff", "blah", "kanon.txt"))
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-createDedupSession.R b/tests/testthat/test-createDedupSession.R
index 90f177b..9ebe0ed 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-createDedupSession.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-createDedupSession.R
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ test_that("deduplication utilities work as expected", {
     tmp <- tempfile()
     dir.create(tmp)
     addObjectToDedupSession(y, session, tmp)
-    expect_identical(checkObjectInDedupSession(y, session), tmp)
+    expect_identical(checkObjectInDedupSession(y, session), absolutizePath(tmp)) # need to clean the path for a valid comparison.
 
     # Doesn't respond this way for different objects.
     z <- y
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ test_that("deduplication utilities work as expected", {
     tmp2 <- tempfile()
     dir.create(tmp2)
     addObjectToDedupSession(z, session, tmp2)
-    expect_identical(checkObjectInDedupSession(y, session), tmp)
-    expect_identical(checkObjectInDedupSession(z, session), tmp2)
+    expect_identical(checkObjectInDedupSession(y, session), absolutizePath(tmp))
+    expect_identical(checkObjectInDedupSession(z, session), absolutizePath(tmp2))
 
     # Doesn't respond this way for a different session.
     session2 <- createDedupSession()