Previous files in .if18 affect next simulations

[PanMENdus]

Hey,

Together with colleague we spotted that between the runs Pmode and Qmode can be affected by files stored in .if18 build folder and it shall be deleted before every run. It can be done after closing PSCAD using shutil.

if folder.exists():
    try:
        print(f"Deleting folder: {folder}")
        shutil.rmtree(folder, onexc=remove_readonly)
        print("Folder deleted.")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Can't delete previous folder: {e}")

folder is the .if18 build one.

[PRWenerginet]

Hej PanMENdus,

I don't quite understand the issue. The build folder (i.e. .if15, .if15_32bit, .if18 etc. depending on the compiler used) is automatically deleted for each "run" or rather, each time execute_pscad.py is "run", by the function cleanBuildfolder on line 369

It also removes all simulation sets in PSCAD before creating them from scratch again based on the testcase sheet being used.

Kind regards,

Peter