From bdda886e10dbb39d77c1b7f2c90ab4e5c0264ece Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: michael-grace <michael.dp.grace@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 23:38:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] windows doesn't like the directories not existing

---
 .gitignore                 |  4 ++--
 helpers/logging_manager.py | 14 +++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 09936eb..b68e97c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 __pycache__/
 
-state/
+state/*
 
 *.egg-info/
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ dev/welcome.mp3
 
 build/build-exe-pyinstaller-command.sh
 
-logs/
+logs/*
 
 *.mp3
 
diff --git a/helpers/logging_manager.py b/helpers/logging_manager.py
index 8df6d65..c51d4a4 100644
--- a/helpers/logging_manager.py
+++ b/helpers/logging_manager.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 from helpers.os_environment import resolve_external_file_path
+import os
 
 
 class LoggingManager():
@@ -9,8 +10,19 @@ class LoggingManager():
     def __init__(self, name):
         self.logger = logging.getLogger(name)
 
+        filename: str = resolve_external_file_path("/logs/" + name + ".log")
+
+        if not os.path.isfile(filename):
+            try:
+                # Try creating the file.
+                open(filename, "x")
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(e)
+                print("Failed to create log file")
+                return
+
         logging.basicConfig(
-            filename=resolve_external_file_path("/logs/" + name + ".log"),
+            filename=filename,
             format='%(asctime)s  | %(levelname)s | %(message)s',
             level=logging.INFO,
             filemode='a'