Re: Remove directory syntax.

Marcus Meissner <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Sep 2020 19:41:08 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> Hi Marcus,
> 
> On 05/09/2020 08:34, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > As for syntax, use e.g.:
> > 
> > 	gphoto2 -f /store_00010001/DCIM --rmdir 897_FUJI
> > 
> Thanks for this.  This is what I get:
> 
> pi@raspberrypi:~ $ gphoto2 -f /store_00020001/DCIM --rmdir 100CANON
> 
> *** Error ***
> PTP General Error
> *** Error (-1: 'Unspecified error') ***
> 
> Or:
> 
> env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt -f
> /store_00020001/DCIM --rmdir 100CANON
> 
> *** Error ***
> PTP General Error
> *** Error (-1: 'Unspecified error') ***
> 
> I have attached a logfile, in case it is any use.  I also tried a number of
> similar alternatives with and without quotes and with and without '=' signs.
> 
> I would comment that sometimes I get 'Unspecified error' and sometimes
> unknown directory.

The syntax is correct.

Just to be clear, the directory is already empty?

But yes, as I wrote earlier, deleting folders is probably not well tested
by Canon and seems buggy in some flavors.

Ciao, Marcus