Is Downloaded content info stored anywhere?

[pooky2483]

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I have been downloading the videos of a YouTube channel 'https://www.youtube.com/user/SriLankerC/videos' and decided to download them all again but using a different video format. I first used mp4 and then decided to use webm, so I deleted the whole folder and try again, but it downloaded nothing.

I assume by this that youtube dl keeps some sort of history of what it has donloaded. So, what I'd like to know is, where is this infomation stored and if it does store dl info, is it safe to delete info of downloaded videos/channels.

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[MrS0m30n3]

There is no option available in youtube-dl-gui to keep track of downloaded files (at least not yet).

You should ask in the youtube-dl's repo instead. Also, make sure that under the Options>Extra tab you have the Ignore youtube-dl config option set.

[nodiscc]

See also --download-archive in https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#video-selection