Moving containers inside a file from one location to another?

[jthermiz]

I wrote a script that reorganizes the acquisition container like this:

Old file
acquisition
Raw
Eseries1
Eseries2
...

New file
acquisition
Eseries1
Eseries2
...

However, this implementation seems to just link the new electrical series to the old file. So when I move or destroy the old file, I won't be able to access the data in the new file. Is there an easy way to make a hard copy of the Electrical Series (ie without creating a new Electrical Series class from the data primitives?)

[rly]

Unfortunately, moving containers inside a file from one location to another is not currently supported. Although PyNWB supports taking datasets read from one file and writing them to a new file, taking entire containers that are read from one file and adding/writing them to a new file is not currently supported.

I've created an issue ticket on this here: hdmf-dev/hdmf#691

For now, you can work around the issue using the hacky last section of the following code: https://gist.github.com/rly/65f54f0c15a4ce0444b474fd0c1732ed