diff --git a/utils/datasets.py b/utils/datasets.py
index a5396f0..d61b86c 100755
--- a/utils/datasets.py
+++ b/utils/datasets.py
@@ -363,8 +363,8 @@ class LoadImagesAndLabels(Dataset):  # for training/testing
         self.stride = stride
 
         # Define labels
-        self.label_files = [x.replace('images', 'labels').replace(os.path.splitext(x)[-1], '.txt') for x in
-                            self.img_files]
+        sa, sb = os.sep + 'images' + os.sep, os.sep + 'labels' + os.sep  # /images/, /labels/ substrings
+        self.label_files = [sb.join(x.rsplit(sa, 1)).replace(os.path.splitext(x)[-1], '.txt') for x in self.img_files]
 
         # Check cache
         cache_path = str(Path(self.label_files[0]).parent) + '.cache'  # cached labels