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gnus-group-compact-group uncaught delete-file error

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From: Keith Waclena <keith <at> lib.uchicago.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 13481 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13481: gnus-group-compact-group uncaught delete-file error
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:37:49 -0500

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Keith Waclena <keith <at> lib.uchicago.edu> writes:
>
>> I have used gnus-group-compact-group for the first time, and it blows up
>> when attempting to delete a file that apparently got deleted out from
>> under gnus:
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Removing old name" "no such file or directory" "/home/keith/Mail/spamarc/255121")
>>   delete-file("/home/keith/Mail/spamarc/255121")
>
> [...]
>
>> I think the delete-file needs to check for an error instead of blowing
>> up.
>
> So you have something else that deletes messages from the directory
> while you're compacting?  I'm not sure whether that can be expected to
> work...

Definitely not *while* I'm compacting, but I did end up deleting some
message files via the shell without gnus's knowledge.  :-(  How
embarassing!

/k

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