OpenError: IO error: ( ... path ... ) LOCK: No such file or directory

I am just trying to open a db through:

let LevelUP = require('levelup');
let LevelDown = require('leveldown');
let path = require('os').homedir() + '/keys.db';
let db  = LevelUP(LevelDown(path));

… and getting an error. The Error object traces as…

message: "IO error: /Users/myname/db/base.db/LOCK: No such file or directory"

OS: MacOS Sierra

[ralphtheninja]

Is there an automated way to do this?

leveldown doesn’t recursively create the path so you would have to do that some other way.

[vweevers]

Do you get the same error if you run your app with sudo?