diff --git a/app/app.go b/app/app.go
index eebc7d0..8ff8087 100644
--- a/app/app.go
+++ b/app/app.go
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ func LoadAppSettings(appDirectory string) *settings.GlobalSettingsFile {
 	// many other parts of Cwtch are likely to fail also.
 	globalSettingsFile, err := settings.InitGlobalSettingsFile(appDirectory, DefactoPasswordForUnencryptedProfiles)
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Errorf("error initializing global globalSettingsFile file %. Global globalSettingsFile might not be loaded or saves", err)
+		log.Errorf("error initializing global globalSettingsFile file %s. Global globalSettingsFile might not be loaded or saved", err)
 	}
 	return globalSettingsFile
 }
diff --git a/settings/settings.go b/settings/settings.go
index 4b2eae4..69c38cf 100644
--- a/settings/settings.go
+++ b/settings/settings.go
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ func InitGlobalSettingsFile(directory string, password string) (*GlobalSettingsF
 			log.Errorf("Could not initialize salt: %v", err)
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		err := os.Mkdir(directory, 0700)
+		err := os.MkdirAll(directory, 0700)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}