Beets cant edit config file

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Hi there,

im new to beets and not that comfortable with the console enviroment.

After installing beets on my Windows10 Desktop i ran into some problems trying to configure the config-file.

C:\Users\bruno                                                          
λ beet config -p                                                        
C:\Users\bruno\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml                        
                                                                        
C:\Users\bruno                                                          
λ beet config -e                                                        
error: Could not edit configuration: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I’m a little confused why he cant edit it when he just told me where to find it.

I’ll appreciate any help.

kind regards

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Hi! This is most likely just because beets is failing to open the text editor on your machine. You might try something like:

notepad.exe C:\Users\bruno\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml

…or otherwise manually creating that file. (With apologies, I’m not a Windows user, so I’m not certain of the details!)

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Thanks! That seemed to work.

When im trying to import all my music to my first directory im getting new Errors but i think ill open a new topic for that.

C:\Users\bruno
λ beet import B:\musicdump
error: database file B:\musiclibrary\library cannot not be opened: unable to open database file

I gave the library a new path in the config file. I moved the original database file to this new path so it’s actually there.