Installer hangs upgrading from 5.6.31 to 5.6.34

[Michael Menefee]

Installer hangs upgrading from 5.6.31 to 5.6.34 at the "Check and Upgrade Database" after entering the root password and selecting the Check button.

Looking around I can see that the "MySQL56" service was stopped, and will not start. When trying to start the mysqld.exe executable from the command line with the same options as the service I could see that it was failing to start because it couldn't find the path "...\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\Uploads", which didn't exist.

I manually created the "Uploads" directory and was able to start the service and then the installation when from " NOT RESPONDING" to working normally again. And then I was able to finish the upgrade. (the first time the install failed, I stopped it, and it overwrote the mysql data. So I had to restore from a backup)

I always manually download the msi installer and execute it on my server (Windows 2012 R2) and this is the first time it was looking for this non-existant directory.

Do I need to create this "Uploads" folder on all my instances of MySQL before attempting anymore upgrades, or is this considered a bug?