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-rw-r--r--plugins/data/load_dat.lua10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/plugins/data/load_dat.lua b/plugins/data/load_dat.lua
index c1cb437d3af..0cbc3d3c83a 100644
--- a/plugins/data/load_dat.lua
+++ b/plugins/data/load_dat.lua
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
local sql = require("lsqlite3")
local datfile = {}
-local db = sql.open(lfs.env_replace(mame_manager:ui():options().entries.historypath:value():match("([^;]+)")) .. "/history.db")
+local db
+do
+ local dbpath = lfs.env_replace(mame_manager:ui():options().entries.historypath:value():match("([^;]+)"))
+ db = sql.open(dbpath .. "/history.db")
+ if not db then
+ lfs.mkdir(dbpath)
+ db = sql.open(dbpath .. "/history.db")
+ end
+end
if db then
local found = false
db:exec("select * from sqllite_master where name = version", function() found = true return 0 end)