I think this error appears when you empty a recycle bin that is empty. I tried that code snippet and it gave me the same error, but when I actually put something in the recycle bin and then ran it again it went through fine without raising an exception.
Tom On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Andrew Ziem <ahz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using Python 2.5.4 on Vista and Windows 7, I get a catastrophic > failure with the same code that works on XP SP3 > > from win32com.shell import shell > shell.SHEmptyRecycleBin(None, None, 0) > > com_error: (-2147418113, 'Catastrophic failure', None, None) > In hex, this error is 8000ffff. > > I tried drive="c:\\" and running as admin. > > > Best regards, > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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