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

[Katz, Dan]

>> 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"))
>>   [...]

> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:18 PM
>
> 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.)

Running file-attributes on the file as you describe:

  (file-attributes "c:/Users/dpkatz/tmp/ange-ftp4392cgy" 'string) 

gives this:

  (nil 1 "dpkatz" "Domain Users" (20227 15644) (20227 15645) (20227 15644) 
22914 "-rw-rw-rw-" nil (29184 1 . 38188) (57524 . 40871))

Dan

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