Permission errors when downloading

[MrSeyker]

This example is for furaffinity, but I've also experienced this one when trying to download from exhentai. I got around the later by changing base-directory from "./gallery-dl/" to "~/gallery-dl/".

F:\gallery-dl>gallery-dl -i links.txt
[furaffinity][error] Unable to download data: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permi
ssion denied: '\\?\F:\gallery-dl\gallery-dl\furaffinity\bigdad\46369348.
txt'
[furaffinity][error] Unable to download data: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permi
ssion denied: '\\?\F:\gallery-dl\gallery-dl\furaffinity\bigdad\Scraps\4
5996906.txt'

I've downloaded to that destination folder before, but now I'm trying to get new pictures and it just won't work.

This is my furaffinity extractor

    "furaffinity":
    {
        "blacklist": ["twitter"],
        "parent-directory": true,
        "postprocessors": [{
            "name": "metadata",
            "event": "post",
            "filename": "{id}.txt",
            "filter": "'http://' in description or 'https://' in description",
            "mode": "custom",
            "format": "{description}\n"
        }],
        "cookies": {
            "a": "78fda0a9-b21a-4686-944a-bb9edef7a42b",
            "b": "61755f99-fd52-47a1-83ee-9ef0b2174622"
        },
        "descriptions": "text",
        "external": true,
        "include": "gallery,scraps",
        "layout": "auto"
    },

EDIT:

Ok, this is a very specific error.

Trying to donwload this URL fails no matter what I try https://www.furaffinity.net/user/bigdad/
Then tested this one which works just fine https://www.furaffinity.net/user/yawg/

Same extractor, the only change for the test was switching to a whitelist that only accepts imgur links. But still no dice on that first gallery.

[hrxn]

This example is for furaffinity, but I've also experienced this one when trying to download from exhentai. I got around the later by changing base-directory from "./gallery-dl/" to "~/gallery-dl/".

This is not really possible. If you just change path options like this, and get some kind of "permission" error, it's from your local filesystem, local access settings etc. or something, not a permission related to the extractor and therefore a website itself..

It's entirely a local issue pertaining to your local system.

[MrSeyker]

It can't be a system error. The extractor works perfectly fine for the other furaffinity user (so it can't be a problem in the furaffinity folder), and using the same config file to download from other websites gallery-dl will write to the same harddrive with no problem.

Just to make sure it wasn't a folder issue, I removed it from the location and tried to let gallery-dl make a new one. No dice, still the same error the moment it tries to write the first file.

Same issue with Exhentai. I have an Exhentai folder with a lot of successful downloads in harddrive F. It just won't write anything new to that specific location, with the same permission error.

I checked the securty tab, and there's no difference between the folders for bigdad and the folders for yawg, nor the furaffinity folder. All writing permissions are the same as for the base folder where gallery-dl is installed.

EDIT:

Not a system error. An antivirus error.

It would seem AVAST at some point locked the folder(s?). I enabled gallery-dl to write a logfile to the base directory which prompted an AVAST window to enable writing permissions. Now bigdad's gallery downloads AND the exhentai extractor can use the original folder again.

I really don't understand why it blocked those two specific locations but let gallery-dl write to other folders without issue. I guess I'll have to reinstall the antivirus (searched their forums and it seems that's the only solution to erase permission blocks). Fucks sake. Dismiss this entire thread.

[Kuroo2021]

This example is for furaffinity, but I've also experienced this one when trying to download from exhentai. I got around the later by changing base-directory from "./gallery-dl/" to "~/gallery-dl/".

F:\gallery-dl>gallery-dl -i links.txt
[furaffinity][error] Unable to download data: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permi
ssion denied: '\?\F:\gallery-dl\gallery-dl\furaffinity\bigdad\46369348.
txt'
[furaffinity][error] Unable to download data: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permi
ssion denied: '\?\F:\gallery-dl\gallery-dl\furaffinity\bigdad\Scraps\4
5996906.txt'

I've downloaded to that destination folder before, but now I'm trying to get new pictures and it just won't work.

This is my furaffinity extractor

    "furaffinity":
    {
        "blacklist": ["twitter"],
        "parent-directory": true,
        "postprocessors": [{
            "name": "metadata",
            "event": "post",
            "filename": "{id}.txt",
            "filter": "'http://' in description or 'https://' in description",
            "mode": "custom",
            "format": "{description}\n"
        }],
        "cookies": {
            "a": "78fda0a9-b21a-4686-944a-bb9edef7a42b",
            "b": "61755f99-fd52-47a1-83ee-9ef0b2174622"
        },
        "descriptions": "text",
        "external": true,
        "include": "gallery,scraps",
        "layout": "auto"
    },

EDIT:

Ok, this is a very specific error.

Trying to donwload this URL fails no matter what I try https://www.furaffinity.net/user/bigdad/ Then tested this one which works just fine https://www.furaffinity.net/user/yawg/

Same extractor, the only change for the test was switching to a whitelist that only accepts imgur links. But still no dice on that first gallery.

Where you ever able to figure this out?

[mikf]

#2412 (comment)

Not a system error. An antivirus error.