Re: [h-e-w] Trouble with TRAMP temp files under Windows 7

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Katz, Dan" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:49:53 +0000
> 
> But if I then move the point to the entry for the "gnu" folder and hit <RET> 
> or run dired-find-file directly, I get a permission error:
> ===================================================================================
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Removing old name" "permission 
> denied" "c:/Users/dpkatz/tmp/ange-ftp2644_Lx")
>   signal(file-error ("Removing old name" "permission denied" 
> "c:/Users/dpkatz/tmp/ange-ftp2644_Lx"))
>   byte-code([...bunch of control codes...] [completion localname operation 
> filename err zerop (file-exists-p file-directory-p) t (expand-file-name 
> file-name-as-directory) signal] 3)
>   tramp-file-name-handler(file-exists-p "/ftp:address@hidden:/gnu/.dired")
>   file-exists-p(".dired")
>   dired-hack-local-variables()
>   dired-extra-startup()
>   run-hooks(change-major-mode-after-body-hook dired-mode-hook)
>   apply(run-hooks (change-major-mode-after-body-hook dired-mode-hook))
>   run-mode-hooks(dired-mode-hook)
>   dired-mode("/ftp:address@hidden:/gnu/" "-al")
>   dired-internal-noselect("/ftp:address@hidden:/gnu/" nil)
>   dired-noselect("/ftp:address@hidden:/gnu")
>   run-hook-with-args-until-success(dired-noselect "/ftp:address@hidden:/gnu")
>   find-file-noselect("/ftp:address@hidden:/gnu" nil nil nil)
>   find-file("/ftp:address@hidden:/gnu")
>   dired-find-file()
>   call-interactively(dired-find-file t nil)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
> ===================================================================================
> This is also reliable, in the sense that I will get this error every time.  
> Note that the contents of the temp file being deleted seem perfectly 
> reasonable (i.e. they look like the correct and complete dired listing for 
> the "gnu" folder).  Also note that if I navigate over to the temp directory 
> manually, I absolutely CAN delete the file in question via dired.
> 
> But not every subfolder causes problems - e.g. trying to dired-find-file on 
> the "mirrors" folder works fine:
> ===================================================================================
> /ftp:address@hidden:/mirrors:
>   drwxr-xr-x    3 0        0            4096 Apr 20  2005 .
>   drwxr-xr-x   10 0        0            4096 Sep 27 21:03 ..
>   dr-xrwxr-x    2 3003     3003         4096 Oct 05 15:13 dynebolic
> ===================================================================================

If you invoke file-attributes one the file that gets "permission
denied", what do you see?  That is, type

  M-: (file-attributes "c:/Users/dpkatz/tmp/ange-ftp2644_Lx" 'string) RET

what does Emacs show as result?  (Replace the name of the temporary
file with the one that is actually shown in the backtrace.)