Hopefully fix crash on new film in some strange cases.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3e3f258c8..1f3097c87 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-12-18  Carl Hetherington  <cth@carlh.net>
+
+	* Hopefully fix exception on new film in some strange cases.
+
 2013-12-09  Carl Hetherington  <cth@carlh.net>
 
 	* Version 1.42 released.
diff --git a/src/lib/config.cc b/src/lib/config.cc
index 54b9168f2..ccbcdf7dd 100644
--- a/src/lib/config.cc
+++ b/src/lib/config.cc
@@ -353,7 +353,13 @@ Config::write () const
 boost::filesystem::path
 Config::default_directory_or (boost::filesystem::path a) const
 {
-	if (_default_directory.empty() || !boost::filesystem::exists (_default_directory)) {
+	if (_default_directory.empty()) {
+		return a;
+	}
+
+	boost::system::error_code ec;
+	bool const e = boost::filesystem::exists (_default_directory, ec);
+	if (ec || !e) {
 		return a;
 	}