Re: Windows10 with MSYS2 shell: Can't erase directories from Emacs' git repo tree

[Phillip Lord]

"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> Hello
>
> I created a git clone of the sources, added some worktrees, changed the
> contents of one file.  And decided to start anew but now I can't delete
> all folders of the repo, Windows says I would need admin rights to
> remove the remaining folders!  (The files in the tree are gone but not
> all folders.)  When I'm looking at the properties of the remaining
> folders it says they are all write protected and nobody is allowed to
> remove the folders!  It seems the only thing I can do it to rename these
> folders.
>
> Is this a known problem with Windows10?


I've only ever built Emacs as admin user (I use a bespoke single purpose
VM, so it's fine), so I have never seen this problem, but wouldn't have.

Phil