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#28792
26.0.60; Deleting to a custom trash directory in Dired gives error
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Reported by: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:27:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: fixed
Merged with 28519,
28828
Found in versions 26.0.50, 26.0.60, 27.0.50
Fixed in version 26.1
Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:50 AM Göktuğ Kayaalp <self <at> 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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