Catch the exception at the firstaidkit script level.

Give some additional information to the user so he knows what to do.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/firstaidkit b/firstaidkit
index b194d3a..e6e8f69 100755
--- a/firstaidkit
+++ b/firstaidkit
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from pyfirstaidkit import Tasker
 from pyfirstaidkit import Config
 from pyfirstaidkit import reporting
 from pyfirstaidkit import initLogger
+from pyfirstaidkit.utils import BackupException
 
 class Flags:
     print_config = False
@@ -244,8 +245,16 @@ if __name__=="__main__":
             sys.exit(1)
 
     report = reporting.Reports(maxsize = 1, round = True)
-    singlerun = Tasker(Config, reporting = report)
-    
+    try:
+        singlerun = Tasker(Config, reporting = report)
+    except BackupException, be:
+        print "\nError: %s" % be[0]
+        print "\nThis happens when firstaidkit end without properly closing the backup dir.  "
+        print "If you are sure you don't have sensitive information in that directory, "
+        print "you can safely erase it.  If you are not sure, just change the "
+        print "directory name.\n"
+        sys.exit(1)
+
     if Config.operation.verbose=="False":
         outputThread = Output(singlerun.reporting())
         if Config.operation.gui=="gui":