Mega plugin ignores download path, saves files to root of C: drive

Effectively the title.

PatreonDownloader.App.exe --version
Patreon Downloader 23.0.0.0

Host is W10 22H2.

I’m running this in a VM where I have very little free space in the root drive (<5 GB):

PatreonDownloader.App.exe --url https://www.patreon.com/<artist>/posts --descriptions --embeds --campaign-images --json --log-level Trace --download-directory O:\pattest\<artist> || exit /b

The Mega downloader seems to be using a creating/using cache directory named C:\V1hgz_<Mega Folder Name> where it’s either saving content, or saving cache things, and it pretty quickly runs the host out of disk space and starts failing in interesting ways.

Off topic: When mega issues a 509 Bandwidth exceeded error, the downloader just winds up doing 10 retries for every mega item, which is kind of annoying. It’d be neat if it were smart enough to give up on mega files for a while when it hits a 509, but it should at least stop doing pointless retries.

[AlexCSDev]

Released new version addressing this issue: https://github.com/AlexCSDev/PatreonDownloader/releases/tag/release_24

[AlexCSDev]

@emerladCoder Thank you for your detailed look into the problem. This is actually an issue which slipped through while I was doing refactoring. Since DownloadPath is supposed to represent a directory relative to the download path it should be completely empty when --use-sub-directories is not used and the url was processed by the plugin. The absolute path is supposed to be built on the plugin’s side. Will fix that asap.