default download location is SysWow64 folder

[roryok]

I installed youtube-dl via chocolatey this morning and downloaded a youtube video with the following command

youtube-dl "[url]" -f mp4

Download worked and completed, but when I went to find the video I couldn't find it anywhere. It wasn't in the desktop, downloads, documents, video folder, music folder, on the c root, or in the user root.

After a full c: drive search I found it in SysWOW64. This is definitely not a good place for files to download to. I realise there's probably some way to specify a download location, but it should default to somewhere else if I don't provide one

[phihag]

The default download location is the current directory! It depends on how you did launch your shell, but by default it should be your home directory (C:\Users\roryok).

I am not sure whether chocolatey changes anything about that. I'll test with it.

You can use the -o option to make the download go to another directory or filename.

[roryok]

It must be the result of installing with chocolatey then, I used the same cmd prompt I had installed through. I definitely wasn't in SysWOW64 though

[phihag]

I just tried to install youtube-dl with chocolateley. Everything works, and it does not look like they change the cwd in any way. Can you elaborate how you did start your shell? I rebooted Windows, pressed [Win]+R, entered cmd, and pressed Enter.

[roryok]

Win+R, typed cmd and pressed enter. Then I installed youtube-dl via
chocolatey, then ran the command to download a video. It ended up in
SysWOW64

Rebooting would fix that and I guess restarting the cmd would too.

After closing and reopening cmd it works as expected

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Philipp Hagemeister <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

I just tried to install youtube-dl with chocolateley. Everything works,
and it does not look like they change the cwd in any way. Can you elaborate
how you did start your shell? I rebooted Windows, pressed [Win]+R,
entered cmd, and pressed Enter.

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