Download failed "ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.04.26
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I get this error after downloading a list of urls,

[info] Writing video subtitles to: Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas -\Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas - (TV Version)\The Sword That Rends Darkness -  Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas - (TV Version) Episode 10 – The Sword That Rends Darkness.frFR.ass
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://v.vrv.co/evs/18dd6062798f52331efbb74c49485128/assets/193fafd10143a31ccc03f5604aac95af_3158961.mp4/index-v1-a1.m3u8?Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly92LnZydi5jby9ldnMvMThkZDYwNjI3OThmNTIzMzFlZmJiNzRjNDk0ODUxMjgvKiIsIkNvbmRpdGlvbiI6eyJEYXRlTGVzc1RoYW4iOnsiQVdTOkVwb2NoVGltZSI6MTQ5MzUwMzY2NH19fV19&Signature=Xi3IC~wfXGZ9ACHhyS0G3MYj2LhghHq95lVsKkDKVeiYpCyukAZz7sKTJGHinuEtDxbPz6~Tdz8B5VuoZlBn2mZIVKLoiNH6-BZTRLScNjGze2NsEWMNMRJK~sfZj1ACawxDwoI36axwZCiWToViZzxxmh0BR9C6Mjhx5HgzabkJ65ftkf7fplm4yabdt4MNvJwOa6rAa9xJHarwpTuGG0rlJaRHJrRtNo-SgbFhMlyC~Q4jLjwGd4tVuhXFpVq~u3trYkJUjojqzxcqfwo7wKT~TUux1ns2fK0A-7FQabRheFF0qQqxxXbIkXYhx0su1hZAMdsaM8dmxP3Ap--SzA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJKQQ2INNHTYFB44A'
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 145
[download] Destination: Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas -\Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas - (TV Version)\The Sword That Rends Darkness -  Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas - (TV Version) Episode 10 – The Sword That Rends Darkness.mp4
ERROR: unable to open for writing: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas -\\Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas - (TV Version)\\The Sword That Rends Darkness -  Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas - (TV Version) Episode 10 – The Sword That Rends Darkness.mp4.part-Frag0.part'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpi8nwgst1\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 175, in real_download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpi8nwgst1\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 449, in sanitize_open
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas -\\Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas - (TV Version)\\The Sword That Rends Darkness -  Chain Chronicle - The Light of Haecceitas - (TV Version) Episode 10 – The Sword That Rends Darkness.mp4.part-Frag0.part'

the odd part is that some how a "\" is added to the file path when i have not included that in the command line. I have also tried this with just the specific video link but to no avail.

This is my output-o "%(series)s/%(season)s/%(episode)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"

in order to get the download to work you need a cookie file from the website crunchyrool
and I user the following incantation

youtube-dl -o "%(series)s/%(season)s/%(episode)s -  %(title)s.%(ext)s" --all-sub --sub-format best -c --cookies cookies.txt --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.81 Safari/537.36" --no-check-certificate -u ***** -p ***** -a Download.txt -v --print-traffic -C 

Please message me to get the password and username.

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with -v, i.e. add -v flag to your command line, copy the whole output and post it in the issue body wrapped in ``` for better formatting. It should look similar to this:

$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.12.06
[debug] Git HEAD: 135392e
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...

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[drmaq]

is there a length restriction?