Files.deleteRecursively method fails on Mac OS in typical use case scenario

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Original issue created by hshsce on 2010-05-12 at 09:22 AM

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. File dir = Files.createTempDir(); (e.g. unit test set up)
2. fill dir with some random files
3. Files.deleteRecursively(dir); (e.g. unit test tear down).

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect directory to be deleted. IOExceptio is thrown instead

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

guava-io r03 from maven repository

uname -a
Darwin foo.lan 10.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 26 11:58:09 PST 2010; root:xnu-
1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Please provide any additional information below.

I suspect that IOException is thrown because non empty directory cannot be deleted. It is non
empty because Files.deleteDirectoryContents() method stopped silently without any action after
detecting symbolic link. In fact on my Mac OS the /tmp dir is linked with symbolic link to
/private/tmp dir.

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Original comment posted by kevinb@google.com on 2010-07-30 at 03:56 AM

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Labels: -Priority-Medium

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Original comment posted by ikaraszi on 2010-11-19 at 12:58 PM

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I have the same issue

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Original comment posted by Randgalt on 2011-01-26 at 07:13 PM

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the problem is this line of code in deleteDirectoryContents()

if (!directory.getCanonicalPath().equals(directory.getAbsolutePath())) {
  return;
}

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Original comment posted by fry@google.com on 2011-01-28 at 04:12 PM

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Status: Accepted

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Original comment posted by kevinb@google.com on 2011-07-13 at 06:18 PM

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Status: Triaged

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Original comment posted by cpovirk@google.com on 2011-07-21 at 06:25 PM

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Status: Duplicate
Merged Into: #365

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I get com.google.common.io.InsecureRecursiveDeleteException: /var/folders/ys/8kxkb4yd6tv1vcyh7y16_zrc0000gn/T/data-2188147556886190201: unable to guarantee security of recursive delete on mac right now. I know there's an option for "insecure" but I didn't seem to see anyone else on the web with this same issue and preferred not to add it since our servers run this on linux anyways.