From 6fe59d0cc1bb2ed75edf4d18008dff5d588f6154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TheFrenchGhosty Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:12:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a warning about Windows path length limit --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 08fe6f4..50379ac 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL Install [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) and ffmpeg -Create a folder where you want your videos downloaded in a drive where you have Gigabytes/Terabytes of space available +Create a folder where you want your videos downloaded in a drive where you have Gigabytes/Terabytes of space available (**Warning for Windows users**: try to keep a short path length like `C:\YouTube-DL` otherwise you will hit the Windows path length limit (255 characters) when downloading videos with long title, [See](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23154) for more details) Put the folders `Arctive Scripts` and `Archive Scripts` of your OS in the created folder (Read the section named "[Archive and Active Scripts?](https://gitlab.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-YouTube-DL-Archivist-Scripts#archive-and-active-scripts)" to understand the differences)