Fixing inotify_add_watch errors when deleting files with QFileSystemModel — Why Qt's file watcher complains about deleted directories and how to handle it

Martin Fitzpatrick — Fri, 14 May 2021 09:00:00 +0000

I have a GUI with a tree view file explorer using QFileSystemModel. When I delete a project directory, I get inotify_add_watch errors like "No such file or directory". The same deletion from the command line doesn't produce these errors. What's going on, and how do I fix it?

Python GUIs - filesystem

Fixing inotify_add_watch errors when deleting files with QFileSystemModel — Why Qt's file watcher complains about deleted directories and how to handle it