-U --update option has problems on windows if not given absolute path to youtube-dl.exe

[henrik-jensen]

Clarification:
'youtube-dl.exe' is placed in a dir. on the path that I have write permissions to.
Let's say I'm in 'C:\SomeDir' and 'youtube-dl.exe' is in 'c:\users\MyProfile\bin' that is on the path.
If I then run:

C:\SomeDir> youtube-dl.exe -U

I get the 'ERROR: no write permissions on youtube-dl' message

Giving the full path on the other hand works fine:

C:\SomeDir> c:\users\MyProfile\bin\youtube-dl.exe -U

and changing directory to where 'youtube-dl.exe' is placed also works:

c:\SomeDir> cd c:\users\MyProfile\bin\
c:\users\MyProfile\bin> youtube-dl.exe -U

This happen with the version '2015.09.03'
I can't check it with latest version ('2015.09.09') as this just tells me that it's up-to-date so it never tries to write to disk.

--henrik

[jaimeMF]

I think it's the same issue as #2718, could you confirm?

[henrik-jensen]

Yes, I can confirm. This issue, #6829, is a duplicate of #2718.
With the extra info that in addition to navigating to the folder of the exe, you can also mitigate the problem by using the full path of the executable. Maybe this info could help in the debugging.
Should I close this issue?