OS Error: 2 no such file or directory ~/<djangoproj>/static on adding django-toolbar app

[SAnegondhi]

#127.0.01:8000

Django Version: 1.7.3
Exception Type: OSError
Exception Value: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/proj/lask/static'
Exception Location: ~/proj/env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py in listdir, line 270
Python Executable: ~/proj/env/bin/python
Python Version: 2.7.6

---

Settings:

DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PATCH_SETTINGS = False

INSTALLED_APPS = (
'authentication',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'debug_toolbar',
'lask',
'ui',
)

---

URLConf
if DEBUG:
import debug_toolbar
urlpatterns += patterns('',
url(r'^debug/', include(debug_toolbar.urls)),
)

If I set

DEBUG_TOOLBAR_PATCH_SETTINGS = True

The OS Error disappears but the debug tool bar does not come on.

If I uninstall toolbar then everything works fine,

[SAnegondhi]

making an empty 'static; dir at the app directory level (BASE_DIR/static) solved the problem. Django still uses BASE_DIR//static directory properly.