diff --git a/Plugins/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer/Search/Constants.cs b/Plugins/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer/Search/Constants.cs
index bc1fb8e7a..e7b43c555 100644
--- a/Plugins/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer/Search/Constants.cs
+++ b/Plugins/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer/Search/Constants.cs
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ namespace Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search
 
         internal const string DefaultContentSearchActionKeyword = "doc:";
 
-        internal const char UnixDirectorySeparator = '/';
-
         internal const char DirectorySeparator = '\\';
 
         internal const string WindowsIndexingOptions = "srchadmin.dll";
diff --git a/Plugins/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer/Search/DirectoryInfo/DirectoryInfoSearch.cs b/Plugins/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer/Search/DirectoryInfo/DirectoryInfoSearch.cs
index e3e1c62e6..9fd495f49 100644
--- a/Plugins/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer/Search/DirectoryInfo/DirectoryInfoSearch.cs
+++ b/Plugins/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer/Search/DirectoryInfo/DirectoryInfoSearch.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-using Flow.Launcher.Infrastructure.Logger;
+using Flow.Launcher.Infrastructure.Logger;
 using Flow.Launcher.Plugin.SharedCommands;
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@ namespace Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Explorer.Search.DirectoryInfo
     {
         internal static IEnumerable<SearchResult> TopLevelDirectorySearch(Query query, string search, CancellationToken token)
         {
-            // if user uses the unix directory separator, we need to convert it to windows directory separator
-            search = search.Replace(Constants.UnixDirectorySeparator, Constants.DirectorySeparator);
-
             var criteria = ConstructSearchCriteria(search);
 
             if (search.LastIndexOf(Constants.AllFilesFolderSearchWildcard) >