Beet dosent recognise my config file

[amitbrown21]

Problem

Problem

Running this command in verbose (-vv) mode:

$ beet -vv (beet config -e
error: Could not edit configuration: [Errno 2] No such file or directory)

Setup

• OS: Windows 11 pro
• Python version: 3.11
• beets version: 2.00
• Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): no

My configuration (output of beet config) is:

directory: F:\Tagged
library: ~/data/musiclibrary.db
import:
    write: yes
    move: yes
plugins: inline convert web
lyrics: yes

[snejus]

I think something has gone wrong with the description. Could you fix it to clarify the command that has been run?

Where is your config located?

[jackwilsdon]

Possibly related: #2192 #3323

[amitbrown21]

Possibly related: #2192 #3323

Thanks for replying, i checked both discussions and it seems that those problems were in linux and i dont think they are related to me, the program works but the configuration file itself dosent seem to be recognized

[jackwilsdon]

What's the output of beet -vvv config (without -e)?

[amitbrown21]

What's the output of beet -vvv config (without -e)?

 beet -vvv config
user configuration: C:\Users\amitb\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml
data directory: C:\Users\amitb\AppData\Roaming\beets
plugin paths:
Sending event: pluginload
library database: C:\Users\amitb\AppData\Roaming\beets\library.db
library directory: C:\Users\amitb\Music
Sending event: library_opened

# --------------- UI ---------------

verbose: 3

[jackwilsdon]

Where is it you've placed your configuration? It seems like beets is looking at C:\Users\amitb\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml.

[amitbrown21]

Where is it you've placed your configuration? It seems like beets is looking at C:\Users\amitb\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml.

i placed it exactly where they wanted, still dosent work...

[jackwilsdon]

What's the output of dir C:\Users\amitb\AppData\Roaming\beets?

[amitbrown21]

What's the output of dir C:\Users\amitb\AppData\Roaming\beets?

[jackwilsdon]

Where did you install Python from? I found some discussions mentioning that Python from the Windows Store is sandboxed and can't access certain paths: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/12b0ckc/pythonwindows_10_writing_files_to_appdata/

[amitbrown21]

Where did you install Python from? I found some discussions mentioning that Python from the Windows Store is sandboxed and can't access certain paths: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/12b0ckc/pythonwindows_10_writing_files_to_appdata/

I see, I did install from the microsoft store so ill uninstall and try again from a normal source.

[amitbrown21]

Ok so after installing python 3.13 I saw that there was an issue with imghdr missing, and saw that 3.13 removes support for it.
so after reinstalling again it finally works.
Thank you for the help.

[jackwilsdon]

Glad to hear! I've raised #5467 to hopefully avoid this in the future.