this app cant run on your pc

[CSWood]

Using Windows 10 64 bit.
I've just started using the windows exe version. It worked once to download one video - but the next time I tried I got the erorr message above.
Quick bit of googling seems to suggest the user account may be corrupt and I should create another - trying to avoid the hassle of this.
Ideas anyone?

[dstftw]

How did you run it? You must run it in from cmd.exe.

[CSWood]

Yes I was running it in a command window. One time it worked next time I tried - doing exactly the same thing and I get the error

[dstftw]

Post the full log of your command and the output.

[CSWood]

Microsoft Windows Version 10.0.10586 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Colin>cd\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl\

C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl>"C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl\youtube-dl .exe"
Access is denied.

C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl>

[CSWood]

I did not notice the if the Access denied warning was there when the problem first started.
I tried creating a new user account and running it from their, which involved changing the folder ownership - which I've now swapped back to the original account. So the "Access denied" warning could possibly be something I've done after the original problem - but I don't think so.

[dstftw]

Post the outputs of whoami /all, icacls . and icacls youtube-dl.exe from the same console and directory.

[CSWood]

C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl>icacls youtube-dl.exe
youtube-dl.exe DESKTOP-19MQRNN\Colin:(I)(F)

Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl>icacls .
. DESKTOP-19MQRNN\Colin:(OI)(CI)(F)
DESKTOP-19MQRNN\Colin2:(OI)(CI)(F)

Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

[dstftw]

Post the outputs of whoami /all

[CSWood]

C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl>whoami /all

USER INFORMATION
----------------

User Name             SID
===================== ==============================================
desktop-19mqrnn\colin S-1-5-21-3938280629-4170293975-3532197375-1001


GROUP INFORMATION
-----------------

Group Name                                                    Type             SID                                                                                                           Attributes
============================================================= ================ ============================================================================================================= ==================================================
Mandatory Label\Medium Mandatory Level                        Label            S-1-16-8192                              
Everyone                                                      Well-known group S-1-1-0                                                                                                       Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Local account and member of Administrators group Well-known group S-1-5-114                                                                                                     Group used for deny only
DESKTOP-19MQRNN\HomeUsers                                     Alias            S-1-5-21-3938280629-4170293975-3532197375-1003                                                                Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
BUILTIN\Administrators                                        Alias            S-1-5-32-544                                                                                                  Group used for deny only
BUILTIN\Users                                                 Alias            S-1-5-32-545                                                                                                  Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE                                      Well-known group S-1-5-4                                                                                                       Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
CONSOLE LOGON                                                 Well-known group S-1-2-1                                                                                                       Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users                              Well-known group S-1-5-11                                                                                                      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\This Organization                                Well-known group S-1-5-15                                                                                                      Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
MicrosoftAccount\c.wood@hhgsvle.org                           User             S-1-11-96-3623454863-58364-18864-2661722203-1597581903-3423480547-2442813942-1216018936-3346542984-1862901351 Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Local account                                    Well-known group S-1-5-113                                                                                                     Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
LOCAL                                                         Well-known group S-1-2-0                                                                                                       Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group
NT AUTHORITY\Cloud Account Authentication                     Well-known group S-1-5-64-36                                                                                                   Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group


PRIVILEGES INFORMATION
----------------------

Privilege Name                Description                          State
============================= ==================================== ========
SeShutdownPrivilege           Shut down the system                 Disabled
SeChangeNotifyPrivilege       Bypass traverse checking             Enabled
SeUndockPrivilege             Remove computer from docking station Disabled
SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivilege Increase a process working set       Disabled
SeTimeZonePrivilege           Change the time zone                 Disabled


C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl>

[dstftw]

Does it work if you run it as youtube-dl.exe without full path?

[CSWood]

No, same error message as before..

[dstftw]

Have you tried redownload youtube-dl/chkdsk/reboot?

[CSWood]

Not yet, I'll give it a go.
Thanks

[CSWood]

Brilliant - THANKS

Now I need to sort out how to use it properly. The command prompt window reported a successful download but no file appeared in the folder, and I can't see where it's been put.
One other thing - is there a switch that will make it download all the video files linked to on a particular page?

[dstftw]

So what was the solution?
By default files appear in the current directory you are in.
There is no switch needed you just pass the URL.

[CSWood]

Sorry, should have said after all your help.
I downloaded another copy of the file.
I no longer get the error message about the app not running - but there is no output. I'm also getting system messages about a faulty app causing problems and the default app for particular filetypes has been reset. Coupled with a redirect issue on my browser it all makes me think there must a virus on my system. I ran malwarebytes and ccleaner a couple of days ago to get rid of the redirect problem but it's still there somewhere. I might just format and reinstall.

I'm not using the downloader for youtube, it's another site, there are around fifty different videos on a page, I was hoping to download them all in one go rather than pasting in fifty different URL's

Thanks again for your help...

[dstftw]

If these videos are embeds per se you may not be able to download them even when pasting URLs one by one since embed URLs may differ from regular ones.

[CSWood]

No, they look like regular links. It's Lynda.com

[CSWood]

The script now runs without error message - but there is no sign of the video is states has been downloaded?

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with -v, i.e. add -v flag to your command line, copy the whole output and post it in the issue body wrapped in ``` for better formatting. It should look similar to this:

$ youtube-dl -v <your command line>
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.12.06
[debug] Git HEAD: 135392e
[debug] Python version 2.6.6 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...

Do not post screenshots of verbose log only plain text is acceptable.

The output (including the first lines) contains important debugging information. Issues without the full output are often not reproducible and therefore do not get solved in short order, if ever.

[CSWood]

C:\Users\Colin>cd\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl\

C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl>"C:\Users\Colin\Google Drive\Lynda\youtubedl\youtube-dl.exe" http://www.lynda.com/Python-tutorials/Reusing-code-function/62226/70927-4.html -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'http://www.lynda.com/Python-tutorials/Reusing-code-function/62226/70927-4.html', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp850, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.03.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Windows-8-6.2.9200
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[lynda] 70927: Downloading video JSON
[lynda] 70927: Checking 1-540 video format URL
[lynda] 70927: Checking 1-360 video format URL
[lynda] 70927: Checking 0-540 video format URL
[lynda] 70927: Checking 0-360 video format URL
[lynda] 70927: Checking 2-540 video format URL
[lynda] 70927: Checking 2-360 video format URL
[debug] Invoking downloader on u'http://files2.lynda.com/secure/courses/62226/VBR_MP4h264_main_SD/62226_02_04_SC11_functions.mp4?c3.ri=5693234104547868801&hashval=1457840551_22126bd6137e079cfcbd90617a0a1c86'
[download] Destination: Reusing code with a function-70927.mp4
[download] 100% of 5.06MiB in 00:02 ```

[dstftw]

[download] 100% of 5.06MiB

[CSWood]

The same message was shown earlier when nothing was downloaded - this particular download has actually worked. Not sure what is going on. Thanks for your help anyway - I don't need to know what the problem was, if it's now sorted itself out by itself then great...

[dstftw]

When you get this message it's always something downloaded. Most likely you've just looked in wrong place.

[dstftw]

Closing since OP issue is now resolved.