[WinError 267] The directory name is invalid

[CodyMoltar]

When running the script, it fails with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\rogie\Desktop\ZOOM-DOWNLOAD\zoom-recording-downloader\zoom-recording-downloader.py", line 291, in <module> main() File "C:\Users\rogie\Desktop\ZOOM-DOWNLOAD\zoom-recording-downloader\zoom-recording-downloader.py", line 267, in main success |= download_recording(download_url, email, filename, foldername) File "C:\Users\rogie\Desktop\ZOOM-DOWNLOAD\zoom-recording-downloader\zoom-recording-downloader.py", line 165, in download_recording os.makedirs(dl_dir, exist_ok=True) File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.2288.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\os.py", line 225, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) NotADirectoryError: [WinError 267] The directory name is invalid: 'downloads\\Exhibition opening: “Tehno & eko & sistēmas” - 2022.11.26 - 04.08 PM UTC' C:\Users\rogie\Desktop\ZOOM-DOWNLOAD\zoom-recording-downloader>

As you can see I'm running the script on a Windows machine. Not sure where the double '' comes from.

[jcalub-kyna]

Have this issue on my machine. The issue comes from the zoom title with semicolon / special characters that you can't use when creating a new folder in windows

[CodyMoltar]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I'll try modifying the script to purge any unusable characters!

[jcalub-kyna]

I tried this. Changing the semicolon to space

the download is ongoing now

[CodyMoltar]

Cool, thanks! For me it was the " that was the culprit I think. Windows shows this when creating a new folder:

[kjarant]

changed
def download_recording(download_url, email, filename, foldername):
dl_dir = os.sep.join([os.path.join(DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY,email), foldername])
for a folder to be created for each user with all the files in that folder. i've got over 2tb to download...