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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 28792@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28792: 26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:58:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY3nT1+_D1LN-FOda-2caFi33VhjkarjDep9K1hB6g-BRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ygmd15sbkdp.fsf@gkayaalp.com>

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:50 AM Göktuğ Kayaalp <self@gkayaalp.com> wrote:

> Quite recently I've opened and retreated the similar bug#28791, trying
> to trash directories recursively.  I did not use a custom
> trash-directory, but I got the same error.  Turns out that it was
> delete-by-moving-to-trash that provoked the error (with an indentical
> message to yours).  Emptying the ~/.local/share/Trash/ folder solved the
> issue for me.  I observed that in ~/.local/share/Trash/info/ some
> .trashinfo files were created with the name of the directory (say
> <dirname>) I was trying to delete, one <dirname>.trashinfo and many
> <dirname><random bits>.trashinfo.
>

That is still a bug in Emacs, at least because the error message is not
helpful. It is also in a non-standard format with incorrect capitalizations
in-between and doesn't even generate a backtrace by default.

Also this issue did not happen on emacs 25.x.
-- 

Kaushal Modi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-12 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-12  3:26 bug#28792: 26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12  3:36 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12  3:51   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 12:50     ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-10-12 12:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 13:02         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 13:37         ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-10-12 12:58       ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-10-12 13:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 13:31           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 13:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 14:02             ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-12 14:06               ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 15:07                 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 15:15                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 15:27                 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-12 15:31                   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-12 20:25                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-12 21:41                     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-15  7:18                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-15 13:35                         ` Kaushal Modi
2017-10-15 13:47                           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-12 14:24           ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-12 14:43             ` Drew Adams
2017-10-12 15:07               ` Andreas Schwab
2017-10-12 15:10                 ` Drew Adams
2017-10-12 13:34 ` Tino Calancha

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