From 6da7749233d855fa8c82d3d1a292d78925d528bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:17:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] App: do not raise an exception if application data directory
 doesn't exist because this breaks the CI tests Instead try to create the
 directories and throw an exception if this fails.

---
 src/App/Application.cpp | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/App/Application.cpp b/src/App/Application.cpp
index b112ee32b3..ad5b6544e3 100644
--- a/src/App/Application.cpp
+++ b/src/App/Application.cpp
@@ -2958,10 +2958,10 @@ boost::filesystem::path findPath(const QString& stdHome, const QString& customHo
 
     boost::filesystem::path appData(stringToPath(dataPath.toStdString()));
 
-    if (!boost::filesystem::exists(appData)) {
-        // This should never ever happen
-        throw Base::FileSystemError("Application data directory " + appData.string() + " does not exist!");
-    }
+    //if (!boost::filesystem::exists(appData)) {
+    //    // This should never ever happen
+    //    throw Base::FileSystemError("Application data directory " + appData.string() + " does not exist!");
+    //}
 
     // If a custom user home path is given then don't modify it
     if (customHome.isEmpty()) {