Greetings All,
I'm doing a clean-out of my drive and noticed I have over 5GB of XML files in the following folder:
Can I delete these without hurting anything? Should I delete through the File Explorer or can I do so through Arc Pro?
Thanks!
Here are your candidate environments accessed via arcpy.
I work on one machine, using locally stored data, so yours will differ. I have nothing in the ... Appdata\ Roaming ... folder at all
import arcpy environments = arcpy.ListEnvironments() environments.sort() for environment in environments: # Format and print each environment and its current setting. # (The environments are accessed by key from arcpy.env.) print("{0:<30}: {1}".format(environment, arcpy.env[environment])) MDomain : None MResolution : None MTolerance : None S100FeatureCatalogueFile : None XYDomain : None XYResolution : None XYTolerance : None ZDomain : None ZResolution : None ZTolerance : None addOutputsToMap : True annotationTextStringFieldLength: None autoCancelling : True autoCommit : 1000 baDataSource : None baNetworkSource : None baUseDetailedAggregation : False buildStatsAndRATForTempRaster : True cartographicCoordinateSystem : None cartographicPartitions : None cellAlignment : DEFAULT cellSize : MAXOF cellSizeProjectionMethod : CONVERT_UNITS coincidentPoints : MEAN compression : LZ77 configKeyword : None extent : None geographicTransformations : None gpuId : 0 isCancelled : False maintainAttachments : True maintainCurveSegments : None maintainSpatialIndex : False mask : None matchMultidimensionalVariable : True nodata : NONE outputCoordinateSystem : None outputMFlag : Same As Input outputZFlag : Same As Input outputZValue : None overwriteOutput : False packageWorkspace : C:\Users\dan_p\AppData\Local\Temp parallelProcessingFactor : None preserveGlobalIds : False processingServer : None processingServerPassword : None processingServerUser : None processorType : None pyramid : PYRAMIDS -1 NEAREST DEFAULT 75 NO_SKIP NO_SIPS qualifiedFieldNames : True randomGenerator : 0 ACM599 rasterStatistics : STATISTICS 1 1 recycleProcessingWorkers : None referenceScale : None resamplingMethod : NEAREST retryOnFailures : None scratchFolder : C:\Users\dan_p\AppData\Local\Temp\scratch scratchGDB : C:\Users\dan_p\AppData\Local\Temp\scratch.gdb scratchWorkspace : None scriptWorkspace : C:\Users\dan_p\AppData\Local\Temp snapRaster : None terrainMemoryUsage : False tileSize : 128 128 tinSaveVersion : CURRENT transferDomains : False transferGDBAttributeProperties: False unionDimension : False workspace : None
you might want to look at
GetLogHistory—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
and
SetLogHistory—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
GetLogMetadata—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
SetLogMetadata—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
it looks like it can be shut off
..
Thanks Dan!
Adding arcpy.SetLogHistory(False) made it so the script no longer creates XML files.
The method for listing environment settings is also useful.
Cheers,
Hi @DanPatterson, Thanks for quick reply.
Referring to your Options screenshot, I confirmed that the "log to XML" box is un-checked.
Based on a test, the XML files appear to get created when I run a python script that uses arcpy outside of Pro, e.g., when I run through VSCode or some similar interpreter. Specifically, when I ran a script via VSCode, it made a new XML file, but when I ran the same script via a Pro toolbox, it didn' t create an XML file.
So it seems like running arcpy script outside of Pro creates the XML file? I wonder if there's some env parameter you can set in the script to prevent creation of XML files?
Thanks,
Analysis tab, left most tool on 2nd row... aka History.... click it.
Select and delete all that you don't want.
Check your options in Project, Options
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