From 36534f4de387fb7560dfa92543386db6e4b263ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TheFrenchGhosty Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:59:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] The Windows path length limit is 260 not 255 --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b980fe9..ba83595 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Install [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) and ffmpeg Create a folder where you want your videos downloaded in a drive where you have Gigabytes/Terabytes of space available -(**Warning for Windows users**: Because Windows is still using a path length limit of 255 characters (seriously... it's 2019), you might have problems when downloading videos with long title (or even videos with short one), supposedly there is ways to disable this limit but during my testing I couldn't make it to work, ([See this youtube-dl issue](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23154) for more details) +(**Warning for Windows users**: Because Windows is still using a path length limit of 260 characters (seriously... it's 2019), you might have problems when downloading videos with long title (or even videos with short one), supposedly there is ways to disable this limit but during my testing I couldn't make it to work, ([See this youtube-dl issue](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23154) for more details) Put the folders `Arctive Scripts` and `Archive Scripts` of your OS in the created folder (Read the section named "[Archive and Active Scripts?](https://gitlab.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-YouTube-DL-Archivist-Scripts#archive-and-active-scripts)" to understand the differences)