'youtube-dl.exe -U' fails with "Access is denied." even with administrator rights, windows 7

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[iggyvolz]

I'm no Windows expert, but I'm fairly certain the file is called youtube-dl, not youtube-dl.exe. That might be part, if not all, of the problem.

[requiredregistration]

access is still denied

[azihassan]

You probably already tried this, but if you haven't, make sure the program isn't already running. Before self-updating, look for youtube-dl in the task manager to confirm this.

[requiredregistration]

it was not running already when i ran it with -U

this happens in windows 8 also

[codaman]

i also get this error

Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 19, in File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 410, in main File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 377, in real_main File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 338, in _init File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1969, in _setup_opener File "youtube_dl\utils.pyo", line 492, in make_HTTPS_handler File "ssl.pyo", line 440, in create_default_context File "ssl.pyo", line 391, in load_default_certs File "ssl.pyo", line 378, in _load_windows_store_certs WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied

after version 2015.10.18

[yan12125]

@codaman Due to insufficient information I'm not sure whether your problems is the same as others in this thread or not. Please open a new issue as I'm going to close this one.

@requiredregistration @Scroph @iggyvolz Could you paste the output of youtube-dl -U?

[codaman]

i think same youtube-dl try to access windows certification store if even use --no-check-certificate. so windows blocks this operation you'll get Access is Denied error. may be i'm wrong but i'll get same error in my server

[trandinhnam]

any update for this issue?

[Hrxn]

I'd bet on issues with your %Path%...

[Taurus3ye]

Had the same problem and could fix it by adding youtube-dl, ffmpeg and atomicparsley to the Environment Variables.