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Kallys / MediaDownloader

A WebUI for youtube-dl, implementing management for background downloads (queuing, concurrency...)
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Choose external save location #2

Closed blopez0909 closed 7 years ago

blopez0909 commented 8 years ago

How would i go about setting the download location to my thumb drive which is in /media/HDD/? whenever i do that it creates a folder within the MediaDownloader folder and saves it there instead of my thumb drive.

Kallys commented 8 years ago

Hey blopez0909 !

I chose to restrict download location to MediaDownloader sub-folders only since I though it is easy to bypass using file system operations and it's easier to develop. I agree that it's not very user friendly and I plan to refactor configs some day (both how to change them and how they are applied).

Until then, and that's how I use MediaDownloader with an external drive, I would suggest you to create a symbolic link to your device partition. Be sure it is writable for your http server user.

For example, in a terminal : ln -s /media/HDD/ <path to MediaDownloader>/downloads/external chgrp www-data /media/HDD chmod g+rw /media/HDD

And set 'output_folder' to 'downloads/external' in config.php file.