Fxied permission error in clear cache (#573)

IN-CORE · May 14, 2024 · 8b88128 · 8b88128
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Changed
 - join dataset has an option for only keeping the table dataset fields [#299](https://github.com/IN-CORE/pyincore/issues/299)
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Fixed
+- Permission error in clearing cache process [#563](https://github.com/IN-CORE/pyincore/issues/563)
+
 ## [1.18.1] - 2024-04-30
 
 ### Changed

diff --git a/pyincore/client.py b/pyincore/client.py
@@ -414,8 +414,11 @@ def clear_cache(self):
         if not os.path.isdir(self.hashed_svc_data_dir):
             logger.warning("Cached folder doesn't exist")
             return None
+        try:
+            shutil.rmtree(self.hashed_svc_data_dir)
+        except PermissionError as e:
+            print(f"Error clearing cache : {e}")
 
-        shutil.rmtree(self.hashed_svc_data_dir)
         # clear entry from service.json
         update_hash_entry("edit", hashed_url=self.hashed_service_url)
         return