diff --git a/crawl.py b/crawl.py
index ecd9cae..3b44654 100755
--- a/crawl.py
+++ b/crawl.py
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ else:
     retrieve_date = _get_date()
 
 if args.cache_dir is not None:
-    filepath = pathlib.Path(os.path.abspath(args.cache_dir))
+    filepath = pathlib.Path(args.cache_dir).resolve()
 else:
     filepath = pathlib.Path(appdirs.user_cache_dir('FirstDataCrawler', 'iwonder'))
 if not filepath.exists():