--- a/QTfrontend/main.cpp	Fri Nov 30 18:19:52 2012 +0400
+++ b/QTfrontend/main.cpp	Tue Dec 04 09:15:55 2012 +0400
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@
 
 bool checkForDir(const QString & dir)
 {
-    QDir tmpdir;
-    if (!tmpdir.exists(dir))
-        if (!tmpdir.mkdir(dir))
+    QDir tmpdir(dir);
+    if (!tmpdir.exists())
+        if (!tmpdir.mkpath(dir))
         {
             QMessageBox directoryMsg(QApplication::activeWindow());
             directoryMsg.setIcon(QMessageBox::Warning);
@@ -105,8 +105,37 @@
     return true;
 }
 
+bool checkForFile(const QString & file)
+{
+    QFile tmpfile(file);
+    if (!tmpfile.exists())
+        return tmpfile.open(QFile::WriteOnly);
+    else
+        return true;
+}
+
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+static CocoaInitializer *cocoaInit = NULL;
+// Function to be called at end of program's termination on OS X to release
+// the NSAutoReleasePool contained within the CocoaInitializer.
+void releaseCocoaPool(void)
+{
+    if (cocoaInit != NULL)
+    {
+        delete cocoaInit;
+        cocoaInit = NULL;
+    }
+}
+#endif
+
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+    // This creates the autoreleasepool that prevents leaking, and destroys it only on exit
+    cocoaInit = new CocoaInitializer();
+    atexit(releaseCocoaPool);
+#endif
+
     HWApplication app(argc, argv);
 
     FileEngineHandler engine(argv[0]);
@@ -232,6 +261,8 @@
     engine.setWriteDir(cfgdir->absolutePath());
     engine.mountPacks();
 
+    checkForFile("physfs://hedgewars.ini");
+
     QTranslator Translator;
     {
         QSettings settings("physfs://hedgewars.ini", QSettings::IniFormat);
@@ -254,10 +285,6 @@
         registry_hklm.setValue("Software/Hedgewars/Path", bindir->absolutePath().replace("/", "\\"));
     }
 #endif
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-    // this creates the autoreleasepool that prevents leaking
-    CocoaInitializer initializer;
-#endif
 
     QString style = "";
     QString fname;