I have a special remote that I would like to delete and have marked it as such in the assistant. Although this was before my myriad of problems with git annex itself wanting to repair the repo all the time. Right now if I take a loog into my daemon.log I see the following error over and over again:
drop skydrive foo.bar
This file could not be removed
failed
I checked if I can login into my account and it works just fine. So I assume that this might be a bug? Is it somehow possible to forego the cleaning out of the special remote and just mark it as deleted for good? Thanks in advance!
It could certianly be a bug in the special remote implementation. It's also possible for some special remotes to intentionally not be able to remove content (this is the case with the web special remote, and the bup special remote at least).
You can manually remove the special remote, by editing .git/config and deleting the stanza for that remote. You may want to run
git annex dead $remotename
first, if you don't intend to ever use that special remote again.