Overwriting the output dir is unpredictable

[yohanderose]

• On some computers shutil.rmtree takes longer than the sleep time allocated
• It might be useful to have an 'inplace' option which would allow users to have map2loop output files open in other software while rerunning map2loop

[lachlangrose]

Could you only export files when required and store the rest inside a loop project file?

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On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, 17:49 Yohan de Rose, ***@***.***> wrote: - On some computers shutil.rmtree takes longer than the sleep time allocated - It might be useful to have an 'inplace' option which would allow users to have map2loop output files open in other software while rerunning map2loop — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#31>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABYHZADFGBNF2PLBQZYQ4DLSIWAYFANCNFSM4SBMFRDQ> .

[yohanderose]

Solved by commit b6b6d19. Overwrite flag now accepts a string 'true' for a complete remove, 'false' the default presumed user error and 'in-place' if you don't wish to create a new output file structure but don't mind things overwriting. Complete removal now waits for the existing output directory to be erased before re-creating.