diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index 55e5cb3372..b1382e0644 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@ bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
     const std::vector<llama_token> & tokens,
                                int & n_past,
                                int   n_batch,
-       const std::filesystem::path & state_path,
+            const std::string_view & state_path,
                               bool   save_state,
                               bool   is_last_batch) {
     const int n_eval = tokens.size();
@@ -1828,8 +1828,8 @@ bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
         }
         n_past += n_tokens_before_last;
 
-        llama_state_save_file(ctx, state_path.string().c_str(), tokens.data(), n_tokens_before_last);
-        LOG_INF("saved session before last token to %s, n_tokens = %d\n", state_path.string().c_str(), n_tokens_before_last);
+        llama_state_save_file(ctx, state_path.data(), tokens.data(), n_tokens_before_last);
+        LOG_INF("saved session before last token to %s, n_tokens = %d\n", state_path.data(), n_tokens_before_last);
 
         llama_token last_token = tokens.back();
         llama_batch batch = llama_batch_get_one(&last_token, 1);
diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index b1124d92b6..5b3e5bdc5b 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #include "ggml-opt.h"
 #include "llama-cpp.h"
 
-#include <filesystem>
 #include <set>
 #include <sstream>
 #include <string>
@@ -790,7 +789,7 @@ bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
     const std::vector<llama_token> & embd,
                                int & n_past,
                                int   n_batch,
-       const std::filesystem::path & state_path,
+            const std::string_view & state_path,
                               bool   save_state,
                               bool   is_last_batch = true);
 
diff --git a/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp b/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp
index a949e1b643..5e35dcd603 100644
--- a/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp
+++ b/examples/save-load-state/save-load-state.cpp
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 #include "common.h"
 #include "llama.h"
 
-#include <filesystem>
 #include <vector>
 #include <cstdio>
 
@@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     params.prompt = "The quick brown fox";
     params.sampling.seed = 1234;
 
-    std::filesystem::path state_file = "dump_state.bin";
+    const std::string_view state_file = "dump_state.bin";
 
     if (!common_params_parse(argc, argv, params, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON)) {
         return 1;
@@ -100,7 +99,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     std::vector<llama_token> unused_sts(tokens.size()); // unused session tokens.
     size_t n_token_count_out = 0;
 
-    if (!llama_state_load_file(ctx2, state_file.string().c_str(), unused_sts.data(), unused_sts.size(), &n_token_count_out)) {
+    if (!llama_state_load_file(ctx2, state_file.data(), unused_sts.data(), unused_sts.size(), &n_token_count_out)) {
         fprintf(stderr, "\n%s : failed to load state\n", __func__);
         return 1;
     }
@@ -154,7 +153,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     // load state (rng, logits, embedding and kv_cache) from file
     n_token_count_out = 0;
 
-    if (!llama_state_load_file(ctx3, state_file.string().c_str(), unused_sts.data(), unused_sts.size(), &n_token_count_out)) {
+    if (!llama_state_load_file(ctx3, state_file.data(), unused_sts.data(), unused_sts.size(), &n_token_count_out)) {
         fprintf(stderr, "\n%s : failed to load state\n", __func__);
         return 1;
     }