Don't trash non-empty directories on Windows #3673
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It appears that the Windows backend of send2trash can't guarantee that files won't actually be deleted. There are some hints that this happens in particular when you delete a lot of data at once. So this returns to refusing to delete folders unless they're empty (or contain only ipynb checkpoints). Closes jupytergh-3631
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It appears that the Windows backend of send2trash can't guarantee that files won't actually be deleted. There are some hints that this happens in particular when you delete a lot of data at once. So this returns to refusing to delete folders unless they're empty (or contain only ipynb checkpoints).
Closes gh-3631