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Unrud / video-downloader

Download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on yt-dlp)
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Problem with changing download folder to a USB HDD #242

Open Rpned opened 8 months ago

Rpned commented 8 months ago

A work around?

jmath1983 commented 8 months ago

I have the same problem when I try to change the download directory to a ~/Video subfolder on Ubuntu 22.04.

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hansbehrends commented 8 months ago

If your installation of video downloader is a flatpak (downloaded via flathub), you need to allow the video downloader application the permission to access the folder your SD card or external drive is mounted in. Obviously, you need to know where the drive is mounted. In my case, I have an external SSD connected via USB3.1. It is mounted in /media/hansbehr So in flatseal, pick the video downloader app from the list of apps on the left. On the right side, scroll down to the "filesystem" option. Under "other files", click the little + sign and add the path to the mount point: (in my case, /media/hansbehr) and be sure to add rw (for read and write permissions). So it will look like this: /media/hansbehr:rw Easy! Just be sure you got the correct path to your drive's mount point in there. EDIT: silly me, obviously you need to have flatseal installed. So get that first, lol