I have three bookmarks: TODO /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.50/etc/TODO startup.el ~/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/startup.el text property /usr/local/share/info/elisp All of these files exist. To reproduce this bug: emacs -Q C-x r l d x The echo area says: "Deleting bookmarks...done". But the bookmark isn't deleted. I have attached my ~/.emacs.d/bookmarks. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.0) of 2013-03-10 on Emacs Bzr revision: 111984 rgm@gnu.org-20130309202227-7xolc8f5fagp712b Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11300000 System Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Configured using: `configure --enable-link-time-optimization' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=fcitx locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Bookmark Menu Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t which-function-mode: t electric-pair-mode: t display-time-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t size-indication-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x k C-x k C-g C-x k C-x k C-x k C-x k C-g C-p C-p SPC C-x k C-x k C-x k M-< C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v M-v M-v C-h v g l o - w h i m o C-g C-x k C-x 1 d i a r y C-v C-n C-n C-n C-n C-e C-/ C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-e * * SPC t e x t SPC p r o p e r t y C-x C-s C-x r l d x r e - b u f f M-b C-b v e q p d x C-x k C-x r l d x c C-h k x C-h k C-g C-p D C-h k d C-v M-v C-l C-x k C-x o C-h k x C-x o d x C-x o C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-v C-l M-v C-x o C-x b s t a C-g p r e - e m - b u g C a n n o t SPC SPC C-g r e - e m - b u Recent messages: Entering debugger... Back to top level. Deleting bookmarks...done Deleting bookmarks...done Type "q" in help window to restore its previous buffer. [2 times] uncompressing bookmark.el.gz...done uncompressing bookmark.el.gz...done Deleting bookmarks...done Quit [2 times] Load-path shadows: None found. 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