Configuration file is ignored

[J316]

I put this line into /etc/youtube-dl.conf because i want it to download on an external hard drive by default
-o "PATH/%(title)s.%(ext)s"
but it's ignored everytime and it downloads into home folder. But if I put this line in terminal between the youtube-dl command and the url it downloads in the specified path. It always used to work in previous installation of Linux.

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with --verbose option and the output of cat /etc/youtube-dl.conf.

[J316]

sudo cat /etc/youtube-dl.conf
-o "/media/External/youtube-dl/%(title)s.%(ext)s"

youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bls2D0jMK84
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bls2D0jMK84']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.16.0-38-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-17.2-rafaela
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] bls2D0jMK84: Downloading webpage
[youtube] bls2D0jMK84: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] bls2D0jMK84: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: A Question of Origins (English Version)-bls2D0jMK84.mp4
[download] 7.2% of 155.86MiB at 738.79KiB/s ETA 03:20^C

[dstftw]

output of cat /etc/youtube-dl.conf

without sudo.

[J316]

cat: /etc/youtube-dl.conf: Permission denied

[dstftw]

Give it permissions for reading for everyone: sudo chmod a+r /etc/youtube-dl.conf

[J316]

same as with sudo

[dstftw]

Same what?

[J316]

same output as with the sudo command

[J316]

why did you close this while still asking questions?

[dstftw]

Because I provided you a solution.

[J316]

yeah. sorry, I misunderstood it