/home/user/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=: No such file or directory.

ZioMario

ZioMario

Hello.

I've installed TelegramDesktop from the packages and one of my friends gave me to a link to watch a video on youtube. This is what happened when I clicked on top of it to hear the song :

Screenshot_2025-01-06_18-07-45.png


Any idea about how to fix this error ? I'm trying to understand by myself where is the problem,but at the moment I haven't yet fixed it.
 
ZioMario said:
Who / what is the upstream ?
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TelegramDesktop (and it's authors) is the upstream in this case.

Looking at the error message, TD seems to be trying to save the link as a file and then open it. However, the file name contains slashes which aren't allowed in file names. Consequently, it's looking for the file:
Code: 
/home
    /marietto
        /.local
            /share
                /TelegramDesktop
                    /https:
                        /www.youtube.com
                            /watch?v=y29kmhnjtc8:

This is not what anyone likely intended. The error, thus, seems to be within TelegramDesktop, or, perhaps, in how the link was sent.
 
lowkeyloki said:
TelegramDesktop (and it's authors) is the upstream in this case.

Looking at the error message, TD seems to be trying to save the link as a file and then open it. However, the file name contains slashes which aren't allowed in file names. Consequently, it's looking for the file:
Code: 
/home
    /marietto
        /.local
            /share
                /TelegramDesktop
                    /https:
                        /www.youtube.com
                            /watch?v=y29kmhnjtc8:

This is not what anyone likely intended. The error, thus, seems to be within TelegramDesktop, or, perhaps, in how the link was sent.
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I don't have any external link or file in that path :

Screenshot_2025-01-08_06-50-09.png
 
I know. It's a totally invalid path/file. TD is, apparently, trying to save a URL as a file and.... URL's contain characters (the slashes) that aren't valid as file names, and other characters that need special handling. This results in a bogus path to a non-existant file.

Why TD is trying to do this?, I have not the slightest idea, but it's a problem (ultimately) with TD and not FreeBSD. Perhaps it's a problem with how the link was sent to you. If it was just a basic message, I'd expect you would simply seen the link as plain text (or a clickable hyperlink) and could use that directly.
 
(As a side note, if TD is a crude port of a windows application, this may have worked in windows as windows uses the other slashes in file paths and so, a URL might be a valid windows file name (though, I'm pretty sure question marks are *not* valid for windows files, and colons denote alternate file streams and are also not allowed, so never mind this dead-end side thought)
 
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