| Re: Problem while deleting shape file [message #56291] |
Fri, 12 October 2007 02:40  |
raval.chintan
Messages: 54
Registered: May 2005
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On Oct 12, 5:57 am, "tia...@gmail.com" <tia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 11, 7:45 pm, raval.chin...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I have written one program in which I am processing one shape file.
>> Once I process it I want to delete the shape file from physical
>> memory. for that I have written a below example program.
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>> PRO ex_shapefile
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>> file = dialog_pickfile()
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>> ; Open the states Shapefile in the examples directory.
>> myshape=OBJ_NEW('IDLffShape', file)
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>> ; Get the number of entities so we can parse through them.
>> myshape->GetProperty, N_ENTITIES=num_ent
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>> ; Read all the entities.
>> FOR x=1, (num_ent-1) DO BEGIN
>> ;Read the entity x
>> ent = myshape->GetEntity(x)
>> ;Clean-up of pointers
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>> myshape->DestroyEntity, ent
>> ENDFOR
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>> ; Though next statement is not required because I have open my shape
>> file in read only mode
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>> myshape->Close
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>> ; Close the Shapefile.
>> OBJ_DESTROY, myshape
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>> ; My Process
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>> ;Delete shape file Problem is over here.
>> ; though I have close the file I have destroy the object then also not
>> able to delete the file
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>> file_delete,file
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>> END
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>> Now my problem is whenever I am deleting the file through file_delete
>> procedure , IDL is giving me error permission denied. I am having all
>> the rights for a folder in which this file is available.
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>> That means IDL is not allowing me to delete the above file .... :-
>> ( ... Is it a bug in IDL? Kindly correct me if I am wrong.
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>> Regards
>> Chintan
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> Are you sure you have the write permission for the Shape FILE ? Type
> "ls -l" to have a look.
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> Best,
> Tian- Hide quoted text -
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Hi Tian,Jean
Thanks for Help.
You both were right . Unfortunately My folder was read only.
Regards
Chintan
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