From 5022b8c1192b643a19b2750e5989dd9212ab41dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:20:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [update] Remove bad advice (#17492)

Authored by: bashonly
---
 yt_dlp/update.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/update.py b/yt_dlp/update.py
index 9be6c23345..21f67ec783 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/update.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/update.py
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ class Updater:
         self.ydl._download_retcode = 100
 
     def _report_permission_error(self, file):
-        self._report_error(f'Unable to write to {file}; try running as administrator', True)
+        self._report_error(f'Insufficient permissions to write to {file}', True)
 
     def _report_network_error(self, action, delim=';', tag=None):
         if not tag: