Using Windows ucrt mps emacs build from https://github.com/kiennq/emacs-build/releases/tag/v31.319.20241101.0cb75cf Since like two months or so, most notably package-el, but also other file deleting operations like expiring eww cache, fails to delete files in .emacs directory on Windows. The error message is "permission denied". I do run emacs as the interactively logged in user. FWIW I start emacs from a bash command line as runemacs.exe Manually deleting files from within dired in the .emacs-directory works so I do not think it is a permission issue. In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2024-11-01 built on fv-az742-134 Repository revision: 0cb75cf1479375db092a3d14b5ec7ce996d3e598 Repository branch: HEAD Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045 System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise (v10.0.2009.19045.5011) Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/d/a/emacs-build/emacs-build/pkg/0cb75cf-ucrt-x86_64 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-semantic-interposition -floop-parallelize-all -ftree-parallelize-loops=4 -g3 ' --disable-build-details --without-dbus --enable-link-time-optimization --enable-build-details --with-compress-install --with-small-ja-dic --with-gif --with-gnutls --with-harfbuzz --with-jpeg --with-json --with-lcms2 --with-mps --with-native-compilation --with-png --with-rsvg --with-tree-sitter --with-xml2 --with-xpm --with-zlib --without-cairo --without-tiff' Configured features: ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES MPS NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LANG: C.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: elisp-compile Minor modes in effect: global-git-commit-mode: t magit-auto-revert-mode: t corfu-terminal-mode: t winner-mode: t windmove-mode: t savehist-mode: t save-place-mode: t recentf-mode: t pixel-scroll-precision-mode: t marginalia-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t icomplete-mode: t fido-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t override-global-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t tab-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t minibuffer-regexp-mode: t buffer-read-only: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: c:/Users/HoechtlJ/OneDrive - 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