Hi,

I must apologise for the stupidity of this question – if I’d have surrounded the call with a try/catch block I’d have figured it out sooner, so it’s my own bad coding.

Now all I need to figure out is how to programmatically create a directory with admin rights to get around the permission denied exception when trying to create files/directories within /library/application support/ on the Mac.

Best wishes.

Tim Burgess

From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Tim Burgess
Sent: 07 February 2014 16:32
To: boost-users list
Subject: [Boost-users] FileSystem: crash on OSX 10.8 with create_directory

Hi,

My app crashes out when I run the following:

boost::filesystem::path myPath = wxStandardPaths::Get().GetConfigDir().ToStdWstring();

if (myPath.has_filename())

{

myPath.remove_filename();

}

// Add the company name and check for directory existence

myPath /=wstrRBCompanyName;

if (!boost::filesystem::exists(myPath))

{

// The following test displays  the path I'd expect to see (/library/Raised Bar in my case)

wxMessageBox( myPath.native(), wstrErrorTitle, wxOK | wxICON_EXCLAMATION);

// Create the required directory - displays a message box indicating deletion of a lock file here and the app exits

boost::filesystem::create_directory(myPath);

}

This code appears to work fine on Windows, but fails on OSX 10.8. I should point out that I'm a blind programmer and I'm struggling to get Apple's VoiceOver utility to interact in a useful manner with Xcode 5's debugger and that's why I'm using a wxMessageBox to try and track down my failure.

Best wishes.

Tim