Am 03.11.2015 um 17:39 schrieb Guillaume Munch <g...@lyx.org>: > Le 03/11/2015 16:16, Stephan Witt a écrit : >> Am 03.11.2015 um 16:36 schrieb Guillaume Munch <g...@lyx.org>: >>> >>> Do you mean that the patch now causes this error message? Under which >>> circumstances precisely? Is it that if the directory is open in the >>> finder, then LyX cannot remove the directory? (Under Linux, Nautilus's >>> behaviour is to move to the parent directory if the current directory is >>> deleted.) >> >> Yes, the error is displayed by LyX because it cannot remove the temporary >> directory while it is shown in the Finder (the Nautilus of OSX). >> >> I'd guess this is the common scenario for the average user: >> check the LaTeX log, use the button, switch back to LyX and finally exit LyX >> - >> which raises the mentioned error message and leaves the empty temporary >> directory in file system. >> >> It's not the patch causing the error message - it's easier to get it with the >> patch. >> > > So the error message is valid. The solution would be to make it clearer. > Maybe one could show a better message depending on the failure. If it's > "resource busy" then we could add to the message something like "The > directory might be currently in use in a different program".
Unfortunately it's a boolean state only: see FileName.cpp line 639 - rmdir(QFileInfo const & fi) called from FileName::destroyDirectory(). Stephan
