This should work, thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Francesc Alted [mailto:fal...@pytables.org] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:37 PM To: pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Pytables-users] When you remove tables from a PyTables file, the file size stays the same
A Thursday 16 September 2010 19:18:31 Francesc Alted escrigué: > A Thursday 16 September 2010 18:23:38 Charles Krohn escrigué: > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > I had a large file (~50GB) consisting of seven tables. I removed > > all but one of the tables using the remove() command, e.g. > > f.root.t032010.remove(). After closing the file, the file size > > remains exactly the same. Is there some way to actually remove the > > data from the file, rather than merely delete the reference to the > > node? > > No directly. You will need to copy the contents of the file to > another one (via File.copy() for example) Oops. I meant File.copyFile(). tables.copyFile() should also do the work. -- Francesc Alted ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
