From 8ceb66454d92e83a15e887026e858172b92970d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Petkus <keith@keithp.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 01:29:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] sanity check the startup directory

---
 gui.go  | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 main.go |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gui.go b/gui.go
index 2a00cc0..8d998f7 100644
--- a/gui.go
+++ b/gui.go
@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@ func NewGUI() *GUI {
 
 // Start launches a new syndie-gui application
 func (client *GUI) Start(path string) {
+	sanityCheckStartupDir(path)
 	client.db = newDatabase()
-	client.db.openDB(path)
+	client.db.openDB(path + "/db/bolt.db")
 	client.db.reload()
 
 	a := app.New()
@@ -98,3 +99,15 @@ func (client *GUI) fetch(fetch bool) {
 func (client *GUI) applyOptions() {
 	client.pagination = 25
 }
+
+func sanityCheckStartupDir(path string) {
+	var err error
+	_, err = os.Stat(path)
+	if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		os.Mkdir(path, 0777)
+		_, err = os.Stat(path + "/db/")
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			os.Mkdir(path+"/db/", 0777)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 4382ba8..d29125d 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ func main() {
 	if err != nil {
 		panic("Error obtaining current user")
 	}
-	client.Start(usr.HomeDir + "/.syndie/db/bolt.db")
+	client.Start(usr.HomeDir + "/.syndie")
 }