Please describe the problem.
I deleted a lot of files with "git rm" and now have the problem that I cannot delete the file-contents with annex dropunused. "git annex unused" shows correctly the files, then I delete them with "git annex dropunsed 1-1000" and the command returns Sucess/OK. When I go back to "git annex unused" all files are still there, altough they should have been deleted.
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
Debian 11 Bullseye; git-annex version: 10.20220322-1~ndall+1
Please provide any additional information below.
# git annex unused
unused . (checking for unused data...) (checking master...)
Some annexed data is no longer used by any files:
NUMBER KEY
1 SHA256E-s38888--42db1349c507d96722d2a506921dbc1a90a0a278828db732c9f1971eb9cfb70c.pyc
2 SHA256E-s22918--093c4494596c7441d2cc6ee90efdd98463e7b830fa5030b2a081b05b559db3bc.pyc
3 SHA256E-s12896--8c2c167031e59888aea1af627705d4005b41a80b433bce4f1e751f9a6e5dc149.pyc
4 SHA256E-s63363--dbb7bdd1512300464f0116a79ab970f26f82bb6dd71236c8ab3d58bb591a473f.pyc
....
(To see where this data was previously used, run: git annex whereused --historical --unused
To remove unwanted data: git-annex dropunused NUMBER
ok
#git annex dropunused 1-1600 --force
dropunused 1 ok
dropunused 2 ok
dropunused 3 ok
dropunused 4 ok
...
# git annex unused
unused . (checking for unused data...) (checking master...)
Some annexed data is no longer used by any files:
NUMBER KEY
1 SHA256E-s38888--42db1349c507d96722d2a506921dbc1a90a0a278828db732c9f1971eb9cfb70c.pyc
2 SHA256E-s22918--093c4494596c7441d2cc6ee90efdd98463e7b830fa5030b2a081b05b559db3bc.pyc
3 SHA256E-s12896--8c2c167031e59888aea1af627705d4005b41a80b433bce4f1e751f9a6e5dc149.pyc
4 SHA256E-s63363--dbb7bdd1512300464f0116a79ab970f26f82bb6dd71236c8ab3d58bb591a473f.pyc
....
(To see where this data was previously used, run: git annex whereused --historical --unused
To remove unwanted data: git-annex dropunused NUMBER
ok
I tried to reproduce this, but dropunused removes the data here. So this is not as simple as it being broken, there is something else going on.
Can you look in .git/annex/objects/ and find the object files for one of these keys?