diff --git a/vcmibuilder b/vcmibuilder
index dee7a0b24..af4df023a 100755
--- a/vcmibuilder
+++ b/vcmibuilder
@@ -178,11 +178,11 @@ mkdir -p "$temp_dir"
 if [[ -n "$gog_file" ]]
 then
 	data_dir="$temp_dir"/app
+	mkdir -p "$data_dir"
 
 	# innoextract always reports error (iconv 84 error). Just test file for presence
 	test -f "$gog_file" || fail "Error: gog.com executable was not found!"
         gog_file="$(cd "$(dirname "$gog_file")"; pwd)/$(basename "$gog_file")"
-	mkdir -p "$data_dir"
 	cd "$data_dir" && innoextract "$gog_file"
 fi