FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Mutalpha]

Hi,

When attempting to download a course, I encountered the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"main", mod_spec)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\gfc20\Documents\Python Projects\Coursera\venv\Scripts\dl_coursera.exe_main.py", line 9, in
File "c:\users\gfc20\documents\python projects\coursera\venv\lib\site-packages\dl_coursera_run.py", line 180, in main
dl_tasks = gather_dl_tasks(args['outdir'], soc)
File "c:\users\gfc20\documents\python projects\coursera\venv\lib\site-packages\dl_coursera_run.py", line 89, in gather_dl_tasks
dl_tasks = DLTaskGatherer(soc=soc, outdir=outdir).gather()
File "c:\users\gfc20\documents\python projects\coursera\venv\lib\site-packages\dl_coursera\DLTaskGatherer.py", line 48, in gather
with open(filename, 'wb') as ofs:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'path\machine-learning-asset-management-alternative-data\02@textual-analysis-for-financial-applicati\02@lab-sessions\04@extra-materials-on-textual-analysis-for-\01@extra-materials-on-textual-analysis-for-.html'

I checked the directory and indeed found it empty. Below is the command used:

dl_coursera --cookies cookies.txt --slug machine-learning-asset-management-alternative-data --how builtin --outdir path

Please help and thank you in advance!

[FLZ101]

You need to disable the Windows path length limit of 260 characters, and google will help you find the instructions for your Windows version.