diff --git a/clipmenud b/clipmenud
index 3f0e950..3c4d27b 100755
--- a/clipmenud
+++ b/clipmenud
@@ -190,6 +190,12 @@ while true; do
 
         cache_file_output="$(date +%s%N) $first_line"
         filename="$cache_dir/$(cksum <<< "$first_line")"
+
+        # Recover without restart if we deleted the entire clip dir.
+        # It's ok that this only applies to the final directory.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2174
+        mkdir -p -m0700 "$cache_dir"
+
         debug "Writing $data to $filename"
         printf '%s' "$data" > "$filename"