Hello All, I am trying to create a directory structure having 4 to 5 levels. When I try to call the boost::filesystem::create_directories(src); It throws an exception saying that path does not exist .So isn't create_directories() mean't for creating directory structure recursively or is there a other api which does it. I could not find Api's which can split the path ,and give the directory names in the path starting after the root directory up to leaf directory . I am attaching the sample code . #include <iostream> #include "boost/filesystem/operations.hpp" #include "boost/filesystem/path.hpp" #include "boost/filesystem/convenience.hpp" int main() { const char* srcPath = "C:\\tmp\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3\\"; (this structure does not exist) boost::filesystem::path src = boost::filesystem::path(srcPath, boost::filesystem::no_check); try { boost::filesystem::create_directories(relativepath); // throws exception if(src.has_branch_path()) { boost::filesystem::path branchpath = src.branch_path(); std::cout << branchpath.string(); // prints C: boost::filesystem::path rootpath = src.root_path(); std::cout << rootpath.string(); //prints C: boost::filesystem::path relativepath = src.relative_path(); std::cout << relativepath.string(); //prints tmp\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3\\ } } catch(std::exception& ex) { std::cout << ex.what() << std::endl; } return 0; } Thanks in advance for the replies. Rajesh