From 4aaaf07875f921e673bc01d7d7cd9cee368e04a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bart van Blokland (on MECHANINJA)" <bart.van.blokland@idi.ntnu.no>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:53:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed issue related to long pathnames

---
 scrape.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scrape.py b/scrape.py
index 266f75a..f1c1bf5 100644
--- a/scrape.py
+++ b/scrape.py
@@ -323,13 +323,13 @@ def makeDirectories(path):
 	cleaned_path = sanitisePath(path)
 	abs_path = os.path.abspath(cleaned_path)
 	if not os.path.exists(abs_path):
-		if len(abs_path) >= 254 and 'Windows' in platform.system():
+		try: 
+			os.makedirs(abs_path)
+		except FileNotFoundError:
 			print('COULD NOT CREATE A FOLDER AT: ')
 			print(abs_path.encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
-			print('Windows is unable to handle paths longer than 255 characters.')
+			print('If you\'re on Windows this can happen due to Windows being unable to handle paths longer than 255 characters.')
 			print('Any files dumped in these directories will be redirected to the overflow directory.')
-		else:
-			os.makedirs(abs_path)
 	return abs_path
 
 # Windows has this amazing feature called "255 character file path limit"