ini object not working

I have never had issues before but i have it set to

Apppath$ + "settings/settings.ini"

however my app is not able to read/write any data to it. (Yes my settings.ini is in a folder called settings in the same location as my exe file, Windows 11) am i missing something as i have not used the software for a while and not sure if i missed something out.

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ok just checked my settings and reading is fine but still writting to the ini is not i have to use the File Object to create a new file and append over the data and delete the old file

I tried with a \ and i wasnt able to read but i solved that by switching to / i still cannot write.
I disabled "Create INI file in Application Data folder" but that did not solve it, this is low priority as there is ways around it by saving data in the app, editing what i need there and saving again but a simple save to ini group item group name would be much easier.