Creating Path /data/print

fcarney

I have a directory named "/data". I have permissions to this directory (755). The owner is my user name for both group and user. Then I try to do the following:

        QDir path("/data/print");
        if(!path.exists()){
            if(!path.mkdir(".")){
               // always calling this code as it fails
               // checked and new directory is not there
            }
        }

I am running Ubuntu 18.04. Qt 5.12.5. 64 bit. mingw.

SGaist

Hi,

Why are you using "." for your createDir call ?

fcarney

@SGaist I tried with and without the '.' The function requires a string. I want it to create the path using the path stored in the QDir object.

fcarney

Okay, this works:

path.mkdir(path.path())

Annoying and redundant, but it works.

Pl45m4

@fcarney

A directory name starting with . will hide the folder. So maybe the directory was there, but you couldn't see it.

I dont know if QDir or QFile can access hidden dirs or files, so I guess that's the reason why the check failed all the time (if nothing else went wrong)

Kent-Dorfman

@Pl45m4 said in Creating Path /data/print:

I dont know if QDir or QFile can access hidden dirs or files

Yes, they can.