GNU bug report logs - #58721
28.2; dired with delete-by-moving-to-trash can't trash directory twice

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Message #29 received at 58721 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 58721 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58721: 28.2; dired with delete-by-moving-to-trash can't trash
 directory twice
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:04:29 +0300

> From: Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2016 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:41:43 -0300
> Cc: 58721 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > [...] so why does
> > only the second move to trash cause the error?
> 
> As far as I can tell, the existence of
> "~/.local/share/Trash/files/org-mode" triggers it. I'd presume that
> its existence takes the execution path to some code branch (the one
> which tries to uniquify the file name/calls make-temp-file) which
> tries to somehow create the directory twice.

Perhaps step in Edebug through copy-directory, and see what's going on
there?  AFAIU, the problem happens inside that function.

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