diff --git a/lib/local/Utilities/src/RecorderOpenFace.cpp b/lib/local/Utilities/src/RecorderOpenFace.cpp
index 965424f0..2feb8ca8 100644
--- a/lib/local/Utilities/src/RecorderOpenFace.cpp
+++ b/lib/local/Utilities/src/RecorderOpenFace.cpp
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ RecorderOpenFace::RecorderOpenFace(const std::string in_filename, RecorderOpenFa
 
 	// Write in the of file what we are outputing what is the input etc.
 	metadata_file.open(of_det_name.string(), std::ios_base::out);
+	if (!metadata_file.is_open())
+	{
+		cout << "ERROR: could not open the output file:" << of_det_name << ", either the path of the output directory is wrong or you do not have the permissions to write to it" << endl;
+		exit(1);
+	}
 
 	// Populate the metadata file
 	metadata_file << "Input:" << in_filename << endl;
diff --git a/matlab_runners/Feature Point Experiments/run_yt_dataset.m b/matlab_runners/Feature Point Experiments/run_yt_dataset.m
index 6a05d663..c99d254d 100644
--- a/matlab_runners/Feature Point Experiments/run_yt_dataset.m	
+++ b/matlab_runners/Feature Point Experiments/run_yt_dataset.m	
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ if(~exist(output, 'file'))
     mkdir(output)
 end
 
-command = sprintf('%s -2Dfp -out_dir "%s -mloc model/main_clm_general.txt " ', executable, output);
+command = sprintf('%s -2Dfp -out_dir "%s" -mloc model/main_clm_general.txt ', executable, output);
 
 % add all videos to single argument list (so as not to load the model anew
 % for every video)