[windows] prevent spawning empty folders

[Butterfly-Dragon]

The current behaviour for any extractor i have tried is that if a folder is called for, the folder is created before the extractor tries to populate it.

How do i prevent the creation of empty folders?

[Hrxn]

Well, you have to create a directory first, before it can be accessed in any way. Obviously, this order cannot simply be changed.

But what you describe here definitely does not happen with normal operation, so this indicates that there is something going wrong. If you can provide an example URL, I can try to reproduce it here.

[Butterfly-Dragon]

😅 it... happens with any extractor as long as i define any kind of folder pattern, the folder gets created.

[Butterfly-Dragon]

gallery-dl-patreon.zip
here is a config file i use