Can't update youtube-dl to its latest version (I'm a noob who needs help)

[M2411]

I know issues with older versions are rejected, but please help me out because the update command (youtube-dl -U) doesn't seem to be working for me! Once it starts the process, it's interrupted when it says "system cannot find the specified path". And that's super weird because I'm in the exact path where I installed youtube-dl for Windows.

What could be going wrong? Shouldn't I be able to update it from the command prompt with the aforementioned line? Could it be related to the fact that I installed ffmpeg in the same path?

I'd really appreciate some assistance. I know this is very stupid and I apologize for being such a dumbass in these things.

[dstftw]

Where did you install it?

[M2411]

In a random folder in C:\User. Is that wrong?

[dstftw]

Post the exact log of error.

[M2411]

It's in spanish though so I hope you can forgive that.

C:\Users\José>cd C:\Users\José\Downloads\Youtube

C:\Users\José\Downloads\Youtube>youtube-dl -U
Updating to version 2017.03.10 ...
Waiting for file handle to be closed ...

C:\Users\José\Downloads\Youtube>El sistema no puede encontrar la ruta especificada.
Updated youtube-dl to version 2017.03.10.

The output says it's been updated but it really hasn't and there's a new file in the folder called youtube-dl.exe.new

PS: "el sistema no puede encontrar la ruta especificada" means "system cannot find specified path" obviously.

[dstftw]

Put it in folder without non-ASCII in path.

[dstftw]

Post the output of youtube-dl -v.

[M2411]

What is a non-ASCII path?? Sorry for my ignorance.

This is the output:
C:\Users\José\Downloads\Youtube>youtube-dl -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.07
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-81960-g1bda0ee, ffprobe N-81960-g1bda0ee
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.

C:\Users\José\Downloads\Youtube>

[dstftw]

Put it in folder with only english letters.

[M2411]

So should I move the whole folder out of the Users subfolder?

It's weird, because I didn't have any trouble running the program in this folder before the update...

[AGSPhoenix]

It's probably the é in José confusing youtube-dl or one of the other systems it uses. Move the youtube-dl executable somewhere like C:\Users and run the update from there.

[TheChatty]

@phihag: The problem is here. youtube-dl writes updating bat file in CP1252 whereas windows expects CP850.