diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 03f6f5dc7..2c1a0bc29 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     - BUGFIX: Do not use home folder as a fallback when the save path is not accessible
     - BUGFIX: Fix Mininova, ThePirateBay search engine plugins
     - BUGFIX: Read RSS articles are remembered on restart for feeds with no torrents attached
+    - BUGFIX: Fix .qbittorrent folder not being created (introduced in v2.0.1)
 
 * Sun Dec 13 2009 - Christophe Dumez <chris@qbittorrent.org> - v2.0.1
     - BUGFIX: µTorrent user-agent is now spoofed correctly
diff --git a/src/misc.h b/src/misc.h
index 80ecf3284..0cbc41630 100644
--- a/src/misc.h
+++ b/src/misc.h
@@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ public:
   // return qBittorrent config path
   static QString qBittorrentPath() {
     QString qBtPath = QDir::homePath()+QDir::separator()+QString::fromUtf8(".qbittorrent") + QDir::separator();
+    // Create dir if it does not exist
+    if(!QFile::exists(qBtPath)){
+      QDir dir(qBtPath);
+      dir.mkpath(qBtPath);
+    }
     return qBtPath;
   }