From 55e485c4bc27c3e45ecd451bb11b8099833fd277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grische <10663446-grische@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:12:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] automatically create shared-zip directory

---
 src/com/sheepit/client/standalone/Worker.java | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/com/sheepit/client/standalone/Worker.java b/src/com/sheepit/client/standalone/Worker.java
index ac08095..d28ccb7 100644
--- a/src/com/sheepit/client/standalone/Worker.java
+++ b/src/com/sheepit/client/standalone/Worker.java
@@ -141,8 +141,16 @@ public class Worker {
 		
 		if (sharedDownloadsDir != null) {
 			File dir = new File(sharedDownloadsDir);
-			if (dir.exists() == false || dir.canWrite() == false) {
-				System.err.println("ERROR: The shared-zip directory must exist and be writeable");
+			if (dir.exists() == false && dir.mkdirs()) {
+				Log.getInstance(config).debug("created shared-zip directory " + dir);
+			}
+			else if (dir.exists() == false) {
+				System.err.println("ERROR: The shared-zip directory " + dir + " does not exist and cannot be automatically created");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			if (dir.canWrite() == false) {
+				System.err.println("ERROR: The shared-zip directory " + dir + " must be writeable");
 				return;
 			}
 			config.setSharedDownloadsDirectory(dir);