Spool directory not found

[hisaac]

I'm attempting to use castget, but am having errors with my spool directory. I'd like to have the directory on a separate hard drive/volume. Here is my .castgetrc contents:

[*]
id3contenttype=Podcast
spool="/Volumes/barge/Audio/Podcast and Radio Archive"
filename=%(date)-%(title).mp3

[WireTap 2020]
url=https://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/wiretap2020.xml

Whenever I try to run castget, I get this message in the terminal:

❯ castget
Updating channel WireTap 2020...
Spool directory /Volumes/barge/Audio/Podcast\ and\ Radio\ Archive not found.

I also tried changing the spool directory to /home/Downloads, but got the same type of error. Am I doing something wrong?

(I am running this on macOS Catalina 10.15.6, using the fish shell)

[mlj]

Castget uses glib's ini file parser, which, as far as I understand, will intepret quotation marks as part of the string. So in your first example, you probably want

spool=/Volumes/barge/Audio/Podcast and Radio Archive

This does not quite fit with the error message you mention afterwards, and especially not with the fact that it failed with /home/Downloads where there is no spacing. Was /home/Downloads a mount point for a separate partition?

(I will update the documentation to mention the quotation behaviour in the ini file.)

[hisaac]

Ah good to know about the quotation marks. I will try it without the quotation marks and let you know if it works.

It's been a while since I tested this, so I don't remember exactly how I did the /home/Downloads. It's likely though that I didn't include the full volume path, as it was running from the volume that /home/Downloads was on. Would it be required to provide the full download path, e.g. /Volumes/Macontish HD/home/Downloads?

[hisaac]

Looks like this was indeed the issue! I removed the quotation marks around the path, and it now works as expected. Thank you!