write-thumbnail doesn't respect max-filesize

[cypherbits]

when I use write-thumbnail and max-filesize together, the video doesn't download but the thumbnail is downloaded. using youtube.

[dstftw]

This is expected behavior in case the video you are trying to download exceeds max-filesize. Anyways, post the full output you get when running with --verbose option.

[rg3]

Probably a confusion. As youtube-dl --help mentions, the --max-filesize option only applies to videos and not to other files.

--max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)