"[SOLVED] Failed to create directory error in Crawl Web operator"

Vineet

Hello,
i have just updated the RapidMiner version to 5.3
i am using crawl web operator and specifying directory. but i am getting 'Failed to create directory' error.
i cannot understand why it is happening because i was successfully able to execute the same process before upgrading the version.
ive added my process code.

Please help!

Thanks,
Vineet

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<process version="5.3.000">
  <context>
    <input/>
    <output/>
    <macros/>
  </context>
  <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="5.3.000" expanded="true" name="Process">
    <process expanded="true" height="579" width="748">
      <operator activated="true" class="web:crawl_web" compatibility="5.3.000" expanded="true" height="60" name="Crawl Web" width="90" x="112" y="30">
        <parameter key="url" value="https://twitter.com/search?q=iphone&amp;src=typd"/>
        <list key="crawling_rules"/>
        <parameter key="add_pages_as_attribute" value="true"/>
        <parameter key="output_dir" value="C:\Users\vnagpal\Desktop\Crawl"/>
        <parameter key="max_pages" value="1"/>
        <parameter key="max_depth" value="1"/>
        <parameter key="max_threads" value="4"/>
        <parameter key="max_page_size" value="1000"/>
        <parameter key="user_agent" value=" Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.12 Safari/537.4 "/>
      </operator>
      <connect from_op="Crawl Web" from_port="Example Set" to_port="result 1"/>
      <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="0"/>
      <portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
    </process>
  </operator>
</process>

Nils_Woehler

Hi,

sadly this is a bug that has sneaked into the release. We are aware of this and have already fixed it.
We will release a bugfix for this soon.

Best,
Nils 

Vineet

Hello,

Thanks for letting me know!!!

Regards,
Vineet

MariusHelf

This problem has been fixed by now in the latest version. Just update your RapidMiner

Best regards,
Marius