topic Re: Can I safely clear out XML files from ArcToolBox History folder? in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Can I safely clear out XML files from ArcToolBox History folder?

DarrenConly — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 23:43:05 GMT

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!

Re: Can I safely clear out XML files from ArcToolBox History folder?

DanPatterson — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:16:53 GMT

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

Re: Can I safely clear out XML files from ArcToolBox History folder?

DarrenConly — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:04:06 GMT

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,

Re: Can I safely clear out XML files from ArcToolBox History folder?

DanPatterson — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:29:17 GMT

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

and

SetLogMetadata—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

it looks like it can be shut off

Re: Can I safely clear out XML files from ArcToolBox History folder?

DarrenConly — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 03:09:32 GMT

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,