Ed,
You must be calling somewhere the TFile constructor with option "new"
instead of "recreate". Could you put print statements around the TFile
constructor to make sure that you are really executing this piece
of code?
Rene Brun
On
Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Edward Moyse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had this problem before, but I can't remember what the resolution
> was, and searching the forums and mailing list archives haven't helped.
>
> I'm trying to save a root file, but always get an error:
> Error in <TFile::TFile>: file idscan_TEST__Barrel.root already exists
>
> The file DEFINITELY doesn't exist (I've tried added random letters to the
> name), and what's really weird is I haven't altered this code for ages,
> and it was working yesterday. I've checked that I have a valid afs token,
> and have tried on several machines. I have plenty of disk space too.
> Basically I'm now stuck!
>
> The relevant bit of code is reproduced below.
>
> TFile fh("idscan_TEST_"+postfix+".root","recreate");
> m_hidscan1->Write();
> m_hidscan2->Write();
> m_hidscan3->Write();
> fh.Close();
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed
>
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