Re: [ROOT] Purging cycles in directories

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 07:34:49 MET


You must open the file in "update" mode

  TFile in("file.root","update");

Rene Brun

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Peter H Fisher 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It is not clear to me how to purge cycles of, for example, histograms.
> For example, I try,
> 
> TFile in("file.root")
> gDirectory->Purge()
> 
> and do not get any sort of error, but the old version do not go away.
> Does anyone have a howto?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
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