diff --git a/downloader.py b/downloader.py
index 5bf3c2c0..111c1f98 100755
--- a/downloader.py
+++ b/downloader.py
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
     exit()
 
 if not os.path.isdir(args.data_root):
-    logging.error(f'folder {args.data_root} does not exist! please provide existing folder in -data_root arg!')
-    exit()
+    logging.error(f'folder {args.data_root} does not exist! Creating new folder')
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),args.data_root))
 
 
 IMAGENET_API_WNID_TO_URLS = lambda wnid: f'http://www.image-net.org/api/text/imagenet.synset.geturls?wnid={wnid}'