Alexander Graf

Thanks for reporting this bug and sharing your insights. Indeed, Instaloader assumes that no IGTV posts are mixed into the normal posts, leading fast update to not behave correctly in...

Thanks for reporting. Indeed, creating a folder containing ".." or "..." in the name does not always work on Windows. > **Expected behavior** > Well rename the folder and ignore...

Just stumbled upon the [\\\\?\ bypass method](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/naming-a-file), which I consider a more appropriate solution for this issue, as well as other windows filesystem related issues such as #84. I don't...

@jimbo108 Are you still interested in giving this a shot? I would appreciate it a lot. In instaloader/instaloader.py we already have the _PostPathFormatter class to workaround the windows filesystem path...

It seems that the abovely-mentioned [\\\\?\ bypass method](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/naming-a-file) works fine. However, it requires that the Windows-native `\` (backslash) is consistently used as a path seperator, which we fixed in #693....

Good idea! It absolutely makes sense to retry with a sanitized path when filesystem related errors occur. Due to not removing the existing replacement, just adding a failsafe that covers...

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Works for me. How can I reproduce this error?

Fixed in version 4.9.4.

It works for me. Is there any profile where this error reproducably occurs?