From 7069540dd1755841cd0037f3e71bf0a84d8f534b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TheFrenchGhosty Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:38:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Enhancement to the Windows path limit warning, rewording --- README.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c4d6989..b980fe9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL 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**: try to keep a short path length like `C:\YouTube-DL` otherwise you will hit the Windows path length limit (255 characters) when downloading videos with long title but even then it might not be enough so you might need to enable longer one, [See](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23154) for more details) +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) 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) @@ -17,7 +19,7 @@ Add content to a 'Source - XXXXXX.txt' file depending of what type of content yo (Linux) Open a terminal in the folder of the script you want to use and run `$ ./[SCRIPT].sh` -(Windows) Open CMD/Powershell in the folder of the script you want to use and run `[SCRIPT].bat` **or** Open a `.bat` file directly (Note: if you open a `.bat` file directly, the CMD/Powershell window will automatically close when the script is finished) +(Windows) Open CMD/Powershell in the folder of the script you want to use and run `[SCRIPT].bat` **or** Open a `.bat` file directly (Note: if you open a `.bat` file directly, the CMD/Powershell window will automatically close when the script is done) Done