I have no idea what I'm doing :)

[eswartzwelder]

I try to download the .odm file, and I am getting this error message:

-bash: cd: /Users/BethAnne1/Downloads/Users/BethAnne1/Downloads/UnbrokenTheYoungAdultAdaptationAnOlympiansJour-584.odm: No such file or directory

[Christopher Brown]

Hi @eswartzwelder — I have no idea what you're doing either, so it's hard to say what you should be doing instead.

If I had to guess, it looks like you probably got that error message after trying to run the first block of code in https://github.com/chbrown/overdrive#instructions, but I still can't fathom what, precisely, your Terminal was trying to interpret when it failed and gave you that error. To rewrite the commands for your specific scenario (still mostly guessing), it looks like you'd want to first run this command:

cd /Users/BethAnne1/Downloads

which should run instantaneously and not show any sort of message. Then, second, you'd run this command:

overdrive download UnbrokenTheYoungAdultAdaptationAnOlympiansJour-584.odm

which will display a whole lot of lines and take a few minutes (depending on the speed of your internet connection) to complete. But, after it finishes, there will be a new folder containing the MP3s in your Downloads folder.

Hope that helps! 🤞 But if you continue to run into problems, I'm gonna need more context to help you out — meaning, the entire commands you ran in Terminal, what steps you already completed, ... honestly the more the merrier — if it's too much I can just skip over it but if it's not enough I can't see into your computer 😉

[Christopher Brown]

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