Unable to delete files on Windows without a Recycle Bin

[manuelbieh]

The issue is probably related to #666 – i still cannot delete files or folders from within the tree-view when the files are located on a mapped virtual drive.

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a new registry entry (and restart Windows afterwards):

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices] 
"W:"="\\??\\D:\\htdocs"

edit:
subst W: D:\htdocs – causes the same problem

• Create a file on your freshly mapped DOS device W:\example\example.txt
• Open folder W:\ in atom
• Try to delete W:\example\example.txt using the tree-view -> fails

Opening D:\htdocs instead and then trying to delete example.txt works fine. File and folder rights are identical. Creating files or folders or renaming them works completely fine, only deletion is not possible (see my attached screenshots).

Comparison:

Broken

Deletion when opening D:\htdocs instead works fine!

[Ben3eeE]

I have the same issue with network mapped drives on Windows. Always assumed it was a duplicate of #830 so never created an issue for it.

[manuelbieh]

Seems to be pretty similar, indeed.

[manuelbieh]

I think I found the reason: virtual drives do not have an explicit recycle bin folder where Atom could move the files into:

Manuel@Manuel-406 /cygdrive
$ ls /cygdrive/c/'$Recycle.Bin'
S-1-5-18  S-1-5-21-2028212831-3322830245-2971025389-1001  S-1-5-21-4197599123-4253082845-4033610845-500

Manuel@Manuel-406 /cygdrive
$ ls /cygdrive/w/'$Recycle.Bin'
ls: Zugriff auf '/cygdrive/w/$Recycle.Bin' nicht möglich: No such file or directory

That's probably the reason why it fails: the folder Atom is trying to move the file into just does not exist.

[manuelbieh]

this workaround by saeed sagharichi works for me at the moment!

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/windows-7-recycle-mapped-drives/95751679-428c-44b0-a8db-1783df9b5e13#3ca21578-3472-443c-8037-bfbdac1dd398

[winstliu]

Blocked on electron/electron#4974.

[Ben3eeE]

@50Wliu #830 was mac only and closed for this Windows specific. It appears to be the same problem on both platforms, deleting from a drive without a recycle bin however. So maybe this and the electron issue should change labels?

Windows 10 X64 still can't delete files to trash while recycle bin is enabled and i'm deleting project files from D:\XAMPP\htdocs folder
Any working solution?

[winstliu]

Your D:\ directory most likely doesn't have a Recycle Bin.