From f30c33d71ced930cfb235898f43928ac7fb12f4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: benfry <fry@processing.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:59:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] X building Processing from scratch X   not able to write
 "preferences.txt" on the first run

---
 processing/app/PdePreferences.java | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/processing/app/PdePreferences.java b/processing/app/PdePreferences.java
index bd7b4967b..4a503422e 100644
--- a/processing/app/PdePreferences.java
+++ b/processing/app/PdePreferences.java
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ public class PdePreferences extends JComponent {
     if (!preferencesFile.exists()) {
       // create a new preferences file if none exists
       // saves the defaults out to the file
+      getProcessingHome().mkdirs();
       save();  
 
     } else {