zahroc: It is an NTFS external USB drive connected to a Windows 10 machine.
It is kind of hard to ignore since the error causes lgogodownloader to exit/crash.

Kygonn: You can use "exclude = patches" or "exclude = p".

coffeecup: Is there a possibility to add a new variable for the directory templates (or is a workaround possible)?

I have a really big library ( > 2000 games ) and would like to be able to have subfolders with beginning letters not to dump all files into one sub directory.

eg all games beginning with a number go to 0, all games beginning with a into a subfolder called 'a', beginning with 'b' into b.

Perhaps adding a new variable to the directory templates like '%firstletter%', so a

lgogdownloader --download --game all --subdir-game /datastore/GOG/%firstletter%/%gamename%

would put the games into

/datastore/GOG/0/99_levels_to_hell
/datastore/GOG/s/slay_the_spire
/datastore/GOG/u/ultima_i

Any ideas how to accomplish this?

InspMustache: With bash (from within datastore/GOG/):
for i in {{0..9},{a..z}}; do
mkdir -p $i
mv $i?* $i/
done

notsofastmyboy: Maybe this has already been answered, but I couldn't find it here.

When I want to download a game whose name is part of another game's name, e.g. the games "Silence" and "The Moment of Silence", how do I avoid downloading both? I usually use

lgogdownloader --download --include i,e,l,d --save-serials --platform w+l --language en --no-subdirectories --limit-rate 8000 --directory /home/thatsme/Downloads/ --game <name>

What would I need to change to only download games with the exact name provided?

coffeecup: Is there a possibility to add a new variable for the directory templates (or is a workaround possible)?

I have a really big library ( > 2000 games ) and would like to be able to have subfolders with beginning letters not to dump all files into one sub directory.

eg all games beginning with a number go to 0, all games beginning with a into a subfolder called 'a', beginning with 'b' into b.

Perhaps adding a new variable to the directory templates like '%firstletter%', so a

lgogdownloader --download --game all --subdir-game /datastore/GOG/%firstletter%/%gamename%

would put the games into

/datastore/GOG/0/99_levels_to_hell
/datastore/GOG/s/slay_the_spire
/datastore/GOG/u/ultima_i

Any ideas how to accomplish this?

Sude: 4e09d63 Add directory template %gamename_firstletter%

%gamename_firstletter% takes the first letter from %gamename%
If %gamename% begins with a number then 0 (zero) is used instead

Sude: LGOGDownloader 3.8
- Fixed headless operation (Patch by: grepwood)
- Overwrite changelog only when modified (Patch by: Matthew Howle)
- Added retry support to --galaxy-install
- Changed some retry conditions
* Don't retry on 404 errors because they are mostly produced by user not owning DLC for a game
* This helps a lot when using high max retry count
- Show reason for retry attempts
- Show installer and patch version when lisintg game details
- Fixed getting redirect URL from curl (Patch by: Timotej Lazar)
- Improved reCAPTCHA detection (Patch by: Timotej Lazar)
- Added support for new language: Thai
- Retry download also on CURLE_SSL_CONNECT_ERROR (Patch by: Ismo Toijala))
- Use duplicate handler for extras
- Check for invalid path in GalaxyAPI::fileJsonNodeToGameFileVector
- Added directory template %gamename_firstletter%
* Useful for sorting big libraries with --subdir-game option
* Takes the first letter from %gamename%
* If %gamename% begins with a number then 0 (zero) is used instead
- Skip files that are listed by API for information purposes only
* For some games the API shows files with "count" and "total_size" of zero meaning that they are not available to download
* These are listed on account page for information purpose only (for example to show DLCs included in the installer)

https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader/releases/download/v3.8/lgogdownloader-3.8.tar.gz

sha256: 2f4941f07b94f4e96557ca86f33f7d839042bbcac7535f6f9736092256d31eb5
md5: f684d8641f68550b14ab7f0f43cbf0f9

Sude: LGOGDownloader 3.8
- Fixed headless operation (Patch by: grepwood)
- Overwrite changelog only when modified (Patch by: Matthew Howle)
- Added retry support to --galaxy-install
- Changed some retry conditions
* Don't retry on 404 errors because they are mostly produced by user not owning DLC for a game
* This helps a lot when using high max retry count
- Show reason for retry attempts
- Show installer and patch version when lisintg game details
- Fixed getting redirect URL from curl (Patch by: Timotej Lazar)
- Improved reCAPTCHA detection (Patch by: Timotej Lazar)
- Added support for new language: Thai
- Retry download also on CURLE_SSL_CONNECT_ERROR (Patch by: Ismo Toijala))
- Use duplicate handler for extras
- Check for invalid path in GalaxyAPI::fileJsonNodeToGameFileVector
- Added directory template %gamename_firstletter%
* Useful for sorting big libraries with --subdir-game option
* Takes the first letter from %gamename%
* If %gamename% begins with a number then 0 (zero) is used instead
- Skip files that are listed by API for information purposes only
* For some games the API shows files with "count" and "total_size" of zero meaning that they are not available to download
* These are listed on account page for information purpose only (for example to show DLCs included in the installer)

https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader/releases/download/v3.8/lgogdownloader-3.8.tar.gz

sha256: 2f4941f07b94f4e96557ca86f33f7d839042bbcac7535f6f9736092256d31eb5
md5: f684d8641f68550b14ab7f0f43cbf0f9