GNU bug report logs - #55720
29.0.50; delete to trash, file already exists

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 08:28:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 29.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 55720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55720: 29.0.50; delete to trash, file already exists
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:19:22 +0200
Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support> writes:

>> > 1. My Trash is: ~/tmp/Trash
>> > 2. delete-by-moving-to-trash is true
>> > 3. I have ~/newdvd
>> > 4. In Trash I have:
>> >      lrwxrwxrwx 1    9 May 27 05:24 newdvd -> ../newdvd
>> > 5. I cannot delete ~/newdvd as I get error that file already exists
>> 
>> What is ~/newdvd in 3) -- a symlink, a file, or a directory?
>
> it is directory in ~/

I was unable to reproduce this with "emacs -Q": I created a symlink
called "newdvd", trashed it, created a directory called newdvd and
trashed it too, and Emacs worked as it should.

Do you have a complete recipe to reproduce the problem?

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