Error 35 when trying to open a file

Targets macOS
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Does anyone know what an error 35 is when opening a file? Got this from a customer at the following code:

try if theTrash <> nil and theTrash.exists then theTrash = theTrash.child("Trash") if theTrash <> nil then TrashBinary = BinaryStream.Open(theTrash, true) end if catch err as IOException globals.theErrorLog.LogItem CurrentMethodName + " error open trash: " + theTrash.NativePath Globals.theErrorLog.DialogErrorProceed "It wasn't possible to open the Trash mailbox! Error: " + Str(err.ErrorNumber) + " " + err.Message end try

The result was: MoveToTrashMozilla.doDate error open mailbox: /Users/thomas/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/lj7vb57e.default/Mail/Local Folders/Trash
2015-05-27, 16:35:17 Dialog: It wasn’t possible to open the mailbox “Trash”! Error: 35

Can’t seem to find anything helpful in the Google. Mac OS 10.10.3, Xojo 2014r2.

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Consulting this site? Mozilla Developers

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How about
let s = NSString(CString: strerror(35), encoding: 0) --> “Resource temporarily unavailable”
Sorry for Swift, but it was so handy calling it in a Playground…

See “man strerror”.

Cheers,

Tom

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@Thomas: thanks, yes this seems to be the error. But what does it mean? That’s the main hard disk of the customer.

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Well, perhaps Thunderbird was using that file at the time where is was accessed…

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Error 35? This means that the error is 35 centimeters in front of the screen (just kidding) :slight_smile:

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@Tomas: very good.

@Thomas: I’m making sure that Thunderbird is quit before I mess around with it’s files. If Thunderbird was running the error message should be “file in use”, shouldn’t it?

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Sorry, no idea because I do not mess around with mail files :wink:

My response was only for the error code (where I had a similar issue finding the proper reason for an error).

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@Thomas: perhaps the customer restarted Thunderbird. I’ll ask him.