diff --git a/src/db/keyvalue-persisted.js b/src/db/keyvalue-persisted.js
index 8c627f9..10336a5 100644
--- a/src/db/keyvalue-persisted.js
+++ b/src/db/keyvalue-persisted.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const KeyValuePersisted = async ({ OpLog, Database, ipfs, identity, address, nam
 
   const queue = new PQueue({ concurrency: 1 })
 
-  directory = path.join(directory || './orbitdb', `./${address.path}/_index/`)
+  directory = path.join(directory || './orbitdb', `./${address}/_index/`)
   const index = await LevelStorage({ path: directory, valueEncoding })
 
   let latestOplogHash
diff --git a/test/orbitdb-open.test.js b/test/orbitdb-open.test.js
index 9a1d342..9edeb35 100644
--- a/test/orbitdb-open.test.js
+++ b/test/orbitdb-open.test.js
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ describe('Open databases', function () {
     })
 
     it('creates a directory for the database oplog', async () => {
-      const expectedPath = path.join(orbitdb1.directory, `./${db.address.path}`, '/log/_heads')
+      const expectedPath = path.join(orbitdb1.directory, `./${db.address}`, '/log/_heads')
       const directoryExists = fs.existsSync(expectedPath)
       strictEqual(directoryExists, true)
     })