Task #8993: Backport of fix from #9192 for long-baseline pipelines

CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/long_baseline.py

@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ class long_baseline(LOFARnodeTCP):
             # I. Create the directories used in this recipe
             create_directory(processed_ms_dir)
             create_directory(working_dir)
+            create_directory(os.path.dirname(output_measurement_set))
+            create_directory(os.path.dirname(final_output_path))
 
             # time slice dir_to_remove: assure empty directory: Stale data
             # is problematic for dppp
@@ -499,12 +501,6 @@ class long_baseline(LOFARnodeTCP):
 
         table = pt.table(output_measurement_set)
 
-        try:
-          os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(final_output_path))
-        except:
-          pass # do nothing, the path already exists, we can output to this
-               # location
-
         table.copy(final_output_path, deep=True)