Christian, You cannot change the name of a TFile once the physical file has been created by the constructor. Rene Brun On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, cstrato wrote: > Dear Rene > > Probably, I am doing something wrong, but it is not possible > to change the name of a root file. > > I have the following class: > MyClass: public TNamed { > private: > TFile *fFileA; > TFile *fFileB; > public: > void CreateFiles(); > } > > The following version works fine and writes both files to disk: > void MyClass::CreateFiles() > { > fFileA = new TFile("Afile.root","RECREATE"); > fFileB = new TFile("Bfile.root","RECREATE"); > } > > However, the following version stores only one file "Afile.root": > void MyClass::CreateFiles() > { > fFileB = new TFile("Afile.root","RECREATE"); > fFileB->SetName("Bfile.root"); > fFileA = new TFile("Afile.root","RECREATE"); > } > > Although both files are available in memory, and the filenames are > correct (as TBrowser shows), once I call the destructor of MyClass, > only "Afile.root" is finally written to disk. > Is there a way to rename a TFile? > > Thank you in advance for your help > > Best regards > Christian > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ > C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a > V.i.e.n.n.a A.u.s.t.r.i.a > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ > >
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