cannot set different download target path/drive

[tryoutuser]

windows 10 21h2
gallery-dl v1.24.4 exe

here is how my config looks :

{
    "extractor":
    {
        "base-directory": "./gallery-dl/",
        "parent-directory": false,
        "postprocessors": null,
        "archive": null,
        "cookies": null,
        "cookies-update": true,
        "proxy": null,
        "skip": true,
        "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0",
        "retries": 99,
        "timeout": 30.0,
        "verify": false,
        "fallback": true,
        "sleep": 0,
        "sleep-request": 0,
        "sleep-extractor": 0,
        "path-restrict": "auto",
        "path-replace": "_",
        "path-remove": "\\u0000-\\u001f\\u007f",
        "path-strip": "auto",
        "extension-map": {
            "jpeg": "jpg",
            "jpe" : "jpg",
            "jfif": "jpg",
            "jif" : "jpg",
            "jfi" : "jpg"
        },
        "kemonoparty":
        {
            "base-directory": "I:/Server/Server 1/home/tryoutuser/gallery-dl/",
            "cookies": "%APPDATA%/gallery-dl/cookies.txt",
            "cookies-update": false,
            "image-filter": "extension not in ('clip','psd','sai')",
            "verify": false,
            "files": ["attachments", "file", "inline"],
            "archive": "%APPDATA%/gallery-dl/kemono.sqlite3",
            "archive-format": "{service}_{user}_{id}_{num}_{hash}"
        }
    },
    "downloader":
    {
        "filesize-min": null,
        "filesize-max": null,
        "mtime": true,
        "part": true,
        "part-directory": null,
        "progress": 3.0,
        "rate": null,
        "retries": 99,
        "timeout": 30.0,
        "verify": true,
        "http":
        {
            "adjust-extensions": true,
            "headers": null
        }
    },
    "output":
    {
        "mode": "auto",
        "progress": true,
        "shorten": "eaw",
        "skip": true,
        "log":
                {
                        "level": "warning",
                        "format": "[{asctime}][{levelname}] {message}",
                        "format-date": "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
                },
        "logfile":
                {
                        "path": "%APPDATA%/gallery-dl/logfile.txt",
                        "mode": "a",
                        "level": "warning",
                        "format":
                        {
                                "debug": " [{asctime}] DEBUG: {name} -> {message}",
                                "info": "[{asctime}] INFO: {name} -> {message}",
                                "warning": "[{asctime}] WARNING: {name} -> {message}",
                                "error": "[{asctime}] ERROR: {name} -> {message}"
                        },
                        "format-date": "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M%S",
                        "encoding" :"utf-8"
                },
        "unsupportedfile": null
    },
    "netrc": false
}

when i try to download using cmd, it always goes to main extractor base-directory path rather than what i set for kemonoparty

also on windows gallery-dl couldn't create the log file and archive sqlite file

i have checked my config using jslint or jsonlint it's all correct valid json file

[Hrxn]

First of all, you should always post a log of your gallery-dl invocation with the --verbose option set, to see if it's actually using the desired gallery-dl version, loads the correct config file etc.

But regardless,

1. What is the point of using the "base-directory" option specifically for the Kemonoparty extractor?
   Just use "I:/Server/Server 1/home/tryoutuser/gallery-dl/" as the option for the global "base-directory" option, at the beginning of your config file. Maybe you are confused between both of "directory" and "base-directory"?
2. Both "logfile.path" and "archive" use gallery-dl's path type, which should do environment variable expansion via os.path.expandvars(path).
   And a path value like "%APPDATA%/gallery-dl/kemono.sqlite3" seems to work for me in my local Python interpreter.
   Not sure, you could check if the directory 'gallery-dl' actually exists in that location (it should work nonetheless, but), or maybe something is misconfigured in your environment?

[tryoutuser]

1. i have tried setting my desired path in the main extractor base-directory and it was still saving the downloads into where the .exe resides
2. i didn't know in json we have to use double backslash so i make it same as what i use in my vps. idk what environment is wrong here i never change any built-in stock windows environment path aliases or values. i don't install any version of python.

[mikf]

i have checked my config using jslint or jsonlint it's all correct valid json file

Did you also check if gallery-dl is loading your config file?

$ gallery-dl -v
...
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files ['${HOME}/.gallery-dl.conf']

---

Just using the base-directory settings from your config works just fine:

$ gallery-dl -c cfg.json  https://kemono.party/fanbox/user/6993449/post/506575
Server/Server 1/home/tryoutuser/gallery…_c96取り置き_01_P058kDFYus7DbqAkGlfWTlOr.jpg

$ cat cfg.json
{
    "extractor":
    {
        "base-directory": "./gallery-dl/",
        "kemonoparty":
        {
            "base-directory": "Server/Server 1/home/tryoutuser/gallery-dl/"
        }
    }
}

[tryoutuser]

G:\Hoarders>gallery-dl.exe --verbose
[gallery-dl][debug] Version 1.24.4 - Executable
[gallery-dl][debug] Python 3.8.10 - Windows-10-10.0.19044
[gallery-dl][debug] requests 2.28.1 - urllib3 1.26.12
[gallery-dl][debug] Configuration Files []
usage: gallery-dl.exe [OPTION]... URL...
gallery-dl.exe: error: The following arguments are required: URL
Use 'gallery-dl --help' to get a list of all options.

weird it did not read my config file in %appdata%\gallery-dl\gallery-dl.conf

do config file have to be in %userprofile% instead?

[mikf]

weird it did not read my config file in %appdata%\gallery-dl\gallery-dl.conf

gallery-dl searches for configuration files in the following places:

• %APPDATA%\gallery-dl\config.json

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%APPDATA%\gallery-dl\gallery-dl.conf
%APPDATA%\gallery-dl\config.json

[tryoutuser]

oh shit ok wrong filename. yea that fixed it