diff --git a/fsnotify.cabal b/fsnotify.cabal
--- a/fsnotify.cabal
+++ b/fsnotify.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                   fsnotify
-Version:                0.2.0.1
+Version:                0.2.0.2
 Author:                 Mark Dittmer <mark.s.dittmer@gmail.com>
 Maintainer:             Greg Weber <greg@gregweber.info>, Roman Cheplyaka <roma@ro-che.info>
 License:                BSD3
diff --git a/src/System/FSNotify/OSX.hs b/src/System/FSNotify/OSX.hs
--- a/src/System/FSNotify/OSX.hs
+++ b/src/System/FSNotify/OSX.hs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 import Filesystem (isFile)
 import Filesystem.Path hiding (concat)
 import System.FSNotify.Listener
-import System.FSNotify.Path (fp, canonicalizeDirPath)
+import System.FSNotify.Path (canonicalizeDirPath)
 import System.FSNotify.Types
 import qualified Data.Map as Map
 import qualified System.OSX.FSEvents as FSE
@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@
 type WatchMap = Map Unique WatchData
 data OSXManager = OSXManager (MVar WatchMap)
 type NativeManager = OSXManager
+
+
+class ConvertFilePath a b where
+  fp :: a -> b
+instance ConvertFilePath FilePath String where fp   = encodeString
+instance ConvertFilePath String FilePath where fp   = decodeString
+instance ConvertFilePath String String where fp     = id
+instance ConvertFilePath FilePath FilePath where fp = id
+
 
 nil :: Word64
 nil = 0x00
diff --git a/src/System/FSNotify/Win32.hs b/src/System/FSNotify/Win32.hs
--- a/src/System/FSNotify/Win32.hs
+++ b/src/System/FSNotify/Win32.hs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 import Data.IORef (atomicModifyIORef, readIORef)
 import Data.Time (getCurrentTime, UTCTime)
 import System.FSNotify.Listener
-import System.FSNotify.Path (fp, canonicalizeDirPath)
+import System.FSNotify.Path (canonicalizeDirPath)
 import System.FSNotify.Types
 import Filesystem.Path
 import qualified System.Win32.Notify as WNo
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@
 -- | Apparently Win32 gives back relative paths, so we pass around the base
 -- directory to turn them into absolute ones
 type BaseDir = FilePath
+
+class ConvertFilePath a b where
+  fp :: a -> b
+instance ConvertFilePath FilePath String where fp   = encodeString
+instance ConvertFilePath String FilePath where fp   = decodeString
+instance ConvertFilePath String String where fp     = id
+instance ConvertFilePath FilePath FilePath where fp = id
 
 -- NEXT TODO: Need to ensure we use properly canonalized paths as
 -- event paths. In Linux this required passing the base dir to