--write-info-json generates file, but I have no permission to open it unlike the video and separately stored thumbnail about youtubedl-material HOT 3 CLOSED

Hm, could you run ls -l and get the permissions on the file? I've encountered issues where videos get locked up, but the JSON file being unreadable even after closing the app seems like it's a permissions issue.

If it is a permissions issue, a possible fix is making sure the JSON file is open to all reads/writes (777) after a video downloads. Just a thought, let me know if ls -l shows anything interesting.

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ls -l did indeed reveal something interesting.

video and thumbnail files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root

json:
-rw------- 1 root root

Guess there's the problem. :)

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Ok, that is quite interesting... I just checked my JSON files and saw the same thing. Couldn't find any related issues for youtube-dl, maybe they want it that way for whatever reason.

I've added some code in so that when the JSON files get created, it has the same permissions as the other files in the directory. Here's the relevant commit, just note some minor changes were made later to avoid compatibility issues. You can test this out if you switch to the nightly tag on Docker (just set up automatic builds!), otherwise the next update will have it included. In the meantime, it should be possible to access the files with sudo.

Anyways, that should fix the bug. Let me know if anything else pops up!

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