Hi, I must apologise for the stupidity of this question - if I'd have surrounded the call with a try/catch block I'd have figured it out sooner, so it's my own bad coding. Now all I need to figure out is how to programmatically create a directory with admin rights to get around the permission denied exception when trying to create files/directories within /library/application support/ on the Mac. Best wishes. Tim Burgess From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Tim Burgess Sent: 07 February 2014 16:32 To: boost-users list Subject: [Boost-users] FileSystem: crash on OSX 10.8 with create_directory Hi, My app crashes out when I run the following: boost::filesystem::path myPath = wxStandardPaths::Get().GetConfigDir().ToStdWstring(); if (myPath.has_filename()) { myPath.remove_filename(); } // Add the company name and check for directory existence myPath /=wstrRBCompanyName; if (!boost::filesystem::exists(myPath)) { // The following test displays the path I'd expect to see (/library/Raised Bar in my case) wxMessageBox( myPath.native(), wstrErrorTitle, wxOK | wxICON_EXCLAMATION); // Create the required directory - displays a message box indicating deletion of a lock file here and the app exits boost::filesystem::create_directory(myPath); } This code appears to work fine on Windows, but fails on OSX 10.8. I should point out that I'm a blind programmer and I'm struggling to get Apple's VoiceOver utility to interact in a useful manner with Xcode 5's debugger and that's why I'm using a wxMessageBox to try and track down my failure. Best wishes. Tim