Deleting a folder no longer fails because part of it was already deleted

Deleting something that has contents — a space, a folder, a document with attachments — is not one removal but many. The platform first takes a list of everything inside, then checks every item, and only then removes them. That list is a snapshot, and in a shared workspace the world does not hold still while it is being acted on.

If anybody removed one of the listed items in that moment, the whole delete was refused, with a message saying that a node could not be deleted because no node could be found at its path. Nothing was removed. The most ordinary way to hit it was the most frustrating one: two people tidying the same space, or a cleanup script running while someone worked — and the remedy was to try again and hope the timing was kinder.

That is a contradiction of the same shape the platform already fixed for a single node. Asking for something to be gone and being told it cannot be removed because it is already gone is not a failure — it is the request having been granted by somebody else first.

A recursive delete now accounts for an item that disappeared while it was working and carries on. Everything else in the subtree is removed, the operation succeeds, and the record of what it removed names only what this delete actually took away — an item somebody else removed is not claimed as its own work.

What has not changed is the protection that makes a delete all-or-nothing. The refusal that used to fire here is worded ambiguously: the same sentence appears when an item is missing and when it is still there but cannot be opened. Those are opposite situations, and waving the second one through is exactly how a half-destroyed folder happens. So the platform now asks the store itself which one it is, and only an item the store confirms is gone is passed over. An item that is still stored still stops the delete, with the same message as before and nothing removed — and if the store cannot answer at all, the delete is refused rather than guessed at.