Tor service doens't work correctly from my user folder (service starts, but network unavailable)

Question

I unpacked Tor Expert Bundle to C:\ and run tor --service install -options -f <path_to_my_torrc>, the service succesfully installs and runs. Tor Network works fine.

But when I tried to install Tor Expert Bundle from my user directory (win8, something like C:\User\<Cyrillic user name>\Desktop\Tor), the service installs but can't start with error "access denied". I added rules:

icacls %cd% /grant "LOCAL SERVICE":(OI)(CI)RX
icacls %cd%\Data /grant "LOCAL SERVICE":(OI)(CI)M

Then the service installs and starts correctly, but tor network doesn't work.

My torrc file:

#DataDirectory C:\Users\Андрей\Desktop\Tor Expert Bundle\Data
GeoIPFile C:\Users\Андрей\Desktop\Tor Expert Bundle\Data\geoip
GeoIPv6File C:\Users\Андрей\Desktop\Tor Expert Bundle\Data\geoip6

ExcludeExitNodes {ru}, {ua}, {by}, {kz}
ExitNodes {pl}

I tried to add quotes to file paths, but i got error 1064. I tried to add DataDirectory parameter, but i also got error 1064.

When I run Tor Browser Bundle from the same directory, tor succesfully starts. How to place tor expert bundle in my user directory (with cyrillic symbols in the file path)?

Answer 1

The problem occured by cyrillic symbols. Quick solution is using in torrc for TEB paths, generated by TBB for their torrc. True way: encode your non-latin symbols to escaped octal CP-1251 numbers, escaping all other slashes in path and path quotation. For example: DataDirectory C:\Users\Андрей\Desktop\Tor Expert Bundle\Data -> DataDirectory "C:\\Users\\\300\355\344\360\345\351\\Desktop\\Tor Expert Bundle\\Data" This variant works, all other tested (without quotes, double escaping, etc) don't.