On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Fabrizio Furano wrote: > In your case, probably ROOT tries to recover the file but cannot write to > your storage, or some other problem occurs. Typically the TFile automatic Yes, the dCache is read-only (for the root protocol), it cannot write anything. > recovery option should be off if you do not want to trigger that long > process. I know, it's on by default, e.g. in Alice we switched it off only > quite recently. How is it switched off? That might indeed solve the problem. Cheers, Sami