From 03b54137dc7b35594a38f5d2bbe702d3876544f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:45:17 +0000
Subject: Hopefully fix crash on new film in some strange cases.

---
 src/lib/config.cc | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/lib')

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;
 	}
 
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