Closed soilstack closed 5 years ago
downloading inside a dropbox directory
This is the answer.
downloading inside a dropbox directory
This is the answer.
Curious what's the issue with dropbox? I've used the same configuration to download many things via this playlist. This is the first time it's caused any problem.
(And to be clear, I am rerunning this same setup away from Dropbox and it does appear to be working now)
Today, I received this error while downloading and my local SSD hiccuped. The error happened at different download percentages. No dropbox involved. Once the SSD was stable, the failing command lines were successful.
The problem with a DropBox (or probably OneDrive, etc) folder is that the DropBox (or whatever) syncing code may lock your output file while yt-dl is trying to open or write to or close it.
No doubt some similar effect could occur if an SSD unexpectedly became read-only.
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A couple of songs in a playlist I'm downloading cause the download to fail mid-download complaining that an argument is invalid. This argument is being created by ytdl, and as far as I can see, the download actually starts and runs for a while before falling over. Ultimately the stacktrace throws an OSError: [Errno 22]
I'm running this on Windows 10 and downloading inside a dropbox directory.