diff --git a/lib/pages/home_page.dart b/lib/pages/home_page.dart
index 1dcc6401..c07f975a 100644
--- a/lib/pages/home_page.dart
+++ b/lib/pages/home_page.dart
@@ -522,6 +522,8 @@ class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> with TickerProviderStateMixin {
       }
     });
 
+    await _deployDir.create(recursive: true);
+
     // Assure that a navgrid file is present
     File navgridFile = fs.file(join(_deployDir.path, 'navgrid.json'));
     navgridFile.exists().then((value) async {