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[] I'm reporting a broken site support issue
I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.09.01
I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
I've read bugs section in FAQ
I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
Verbose log
C:\Users\sc12\Downloads\ffmpeg\bin>youtube -o F:\Downloads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy4iQvJo24U -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-o', 'F:\Downloads', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy4iQvJo24U', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.09.01
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.18362
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-94423-ga0c1970781, ffprobe N-94423-ga0c1970781
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Iy4iQvJo24U: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Iy4iQvJo24U: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] {18} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] Iy4iQvJo24U: Downloading player https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player_ias-vfl9X5OgR/en_US/base.js
[youtube] {136} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {247} signature length 101, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] Iy4iQvJo24U: Downloading player https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player_ias-vfl9X5OgR/en_US/base.js
[youtube] {135} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {244} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {134} signature length 101, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {243} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {133} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {242} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {160} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {278} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {140} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {249} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {250} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[youtube] {251} signature length 105, html5 player vfl9X5OgR
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
ERROR: unable to create directory [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'F:\'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpbzyg5d3a\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1758, in ensure_dir_exists
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\os.py", line 237, in makedirs
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'F:\'
Description
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this is the error im gettings while im trying to download a youtube video and save it in a network location
(Mounted network location disk) In Windows 10
ERROR: unable to create directory [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'F:\'