From 92071d02f4b05a5a819c5fd243d8d4b0d97a8a1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:49:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix crash when 'base-directory' is an empty string (#1339)

---
 gallery_dl/util.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/util.py b/gallery_dl/util.py
index a1a465a1..a858079c 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/util.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/util.py
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ class PathFormat():
             basedir = extractor.config("base-directory")
             if basedir is None:
                 basedir = "." + os.sep + "gallery-dl" + os.sep
-            else:
+            elif basedir:
                 basedir = expand_path(basedir)
                 if os.altsep and os.altsep in basedir:
                     basedir = basedir.replace(os.altsep, os.sep)