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Error: EPERM - rmdir

See original GitHub issue

On rare occasions I get this:

[11:40:41] 'clean.build' errored after 412 ms
[11:40:41] Error: EPERM, rmdir 'W:\Workspace\my-project\build'
    at Error (native)

It happens on OSX too, but never got it on Linux

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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sindresorhuscommented, Oct 20, 2015

@iongion What’s to understand? You’ve given me nothing to work with other an a generic error message that you could have easily Googled for yourself. I gave you as much time as put into this issue. Also realize I get hundreds of these kinds of issues every week, and almost all of them are some kind of user mistake or problem with their system.

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sindresorhuscommented, Oct 20, 2015

I am sorry for creating you anger

I’m not sure why you would think I’m angry, I’m not at all. Just telling why I responded like I did 😃

I thought that the whole idea with public contributions is that people help each-other.

Usually it’s people demanding me to help them.

When issues appear because of introducing this, what do you expect your users to do?

At minimum, Google the error message and do some light debugging yourself.

In all good will and honesty, how would you have expected this to be reported?

Include which version of del you’re using, Node.js version, a snippet of code that can reproduce the issue.

Or why/what rational process should have brought me to the decisions not to open this ticket at all ?

I’m not saying you shouldn’t have opened this issue. I’m just saying there’s not much I can do about it based on the info you provided, and it’s most likely an issue out of my hands. I have no way to reproduce it, so how do you expect me to fix anything?

I’ve looked into this for you, and it seems like this might be relevant: https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf/issues/86 And it might be fixed by doing retries on EPERM, as the EPERM might only be temporary. rimraf is what del uses underneath.