From 8d4fa4b627a8cc031d66c5a4fba8f71e8801b25e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Veronica K. B. Olsen" <1619840+vkbo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 18:28:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added a try/except to the creation of backup folder

---
 nw/project/project.py | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nw/project/project.py b/nw/project/project.py
index 94881fba..fb4f340a 100644
--- a/nw/project/project.py
+++ b/nw/project/project.py
@@ -518,8 +518,15 @@ class NWProject():
 
         baseDir = path.join(self.mainConf.backupPath, cleanName)
         if not path.isdir(baseDir):
-            mkdir(baseDir)
-            logger.debug("Created folder %s" % baseDir)
+            try:
+                mkdir(baseDir)
+                logger.debug("Created folder %s" % baseDir)
+            except Exception as e:
+                self.theParent.makeAlert(
+                    ["Could not create backup folder.",str(e)],
+                    nwAlert.ERROR
+                )
+                return False
 
         archName = "Backup on %s" % datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d at %H.%M.%S")
         baseName = path.join(baseDir, archName)