About vl-file-delete

Have anybody noticed, that command "vl-file-delete" works not so well?

I want to delete accessary txt-file from hard drive after dwg-file is
printed out, but that accessary file don't disappear. I had to do
While-loop and now it works. If I add a counter to the loop, the counter
runs about 1000-2000 times until txt-file has disappear. Okay, of course it
depends the power of the computer (mine is Pentium 2,8 GHz), but still I
wonder, why the file doesn't disappear at first try. Is this problem in
Windows?

Kari


(defun DeleteFile ( / )

(vl-load-com)
(setq loop 1)

(while loop

(if (findfile PathAndFileName)
(vl-file-delete PathAndFileName)
(setq loop nil)
)

)

)

 

If this txt file is created during the end of the plot and your lsp is running exactly after that. it could be that windows has not either finished creating the file or closing the file.

You could be going too fast and that could be why your counter reaches 1-2k cycles before (being allowed to?) deleting the file.

 

I have made these (test) txt-files many minutes before plotting.

One of our customer wants the routine with LISP, which is polling certain
folder. Their own routine drops to the folder txt-files, which includes the
name of the plotting file. When my routine is polling out, that there is a
new file in folder, the routine reads the content of the file and open the
dwg-file, which name was in txt-file. When dwg has printed out, routine had
to delete txt-file.

Routine works very well, but I am just wondering, why the txt-file is on the
hard disk like chewing gum on the shoe?

 

Hi Kari

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Cheers

 

Hmm... interesting...

Kari