How do change the default download directory?

[Mierls]

How do I change the default download directory? Gallery-dl downloads files in C:\Users\Admin\gallery-dl. I would like to change the download folder to D:\gallery-dl. I can simply transfer the downloaded files after downloading, however, I periodically update the downloaded artist galleries, therefore, this is not a very convenient solution.

[Hrxn]

First of all, gallery-dl uses a relative path, so if you run gallery-dl from E:\ the default download directory would be E:\gallery-dl\

You can set the output directory with this option: gallery-dl --dest "D:\gallery-dl" <YOUR_URL_HERE>

Alternatively, if you want to avoid using this option with every gallery-dl invocation, you need change the "base-directory": option in your config file, like this here:

gallery-dl/docs/gallery-dl.conf

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	{
	"extractor":
	{
	"base-directory": "./gallery-dl/",
	"parent-directory": false,
	"postprocessors": null,

"base-directory": "D:/gallery-dl"`

[Mierls]

I created a command line shortcut and wrote to the target C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /K "cd /d D:" and launched gallery-dl through it. The files were downloaded to the desired folder.