axcore
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2 years ago is there a way to have a seperate message pop up in cases like this that says something like 'it looks like this file was already downloaded' rather than a popup that looks like something should have happened.
This popup window is designed for newbies and people who don't understand what a GUI is. Obviously those people never read documentation, so I added this window, because people get confused and upset when nothing happens.
If you are not a clueless newbie, then you should just disable the window using the checkbox.
Your suggestion is not possible, because youtube-dl does not produce separate error/warning messages for individual videos, when downloading a channel/playlist. I asked for that behaviour to be changed and was told to fuck off.
alidan
Ok this one I think may be simple. the message that pops up if I try to download something that was already downloaded is this
This to me look like an error/the program did not get anything from the page submitted, as in if youtube changed something and ytdlp was out of date I would see this message
is there a way to have a seperate message pop up in cases like this that says something like 'it looks like this file was already downloaded' rather than a popup that looks like something should have happened.
and on the topic of already downloaded, I think I asked about something like this in the past, but now I have a use case for it. a while back I mass downloaded a bunch of videos, some of them pulled the high quality video, some of them pulled a 480p at best some are 240p and I think one a few are even lower, so when I eventually redownload them, it would be helpful if if on a 'looks like you already downloaded this' page there was an ability to ignore that and redownload rather than editing a text file to make it forget I downloaded it.