diff --git a/Database/APR/RootCollection/test/rntuple_rw_test.cxx b/Database/APR/RootCollection/test/rntuple_rw_test.cxx
index 03a3526da701a77851ed2ae0e08453dd439d22df..a01f2c9eca61ee1d84cd009932569fcbe3cbd76d 100644
--- a/Database/APR/RootCollection/test/rntuple_rw_test.cxx
+++ b/Database/APR/RootCollection/test/rntuple_rw_test.cxx
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 
 int main ATLAS_NOT_THREAD_SAFE ()
 {
-   (void)remove("test_collection.root");
    try {
       std::cout << "Read test starting..." << std::endl;
       TestDriver driver( "PFN:test_collection.rntup", "RNTCollection", "" );
diff --git a/Database/APR/RootCollection/test/ttree_rw_test.cxx b/Database/APR/RootCollection/test/ttree_rw_test.cxx
index 5e8067ac359ce7da809ab7411775dc7b94e7c2b9..2856dc226480bb4d9d51ea37f362afe7838f3ad7 100755
--- a/Database/APR/RootCollection/test/ttree_rw_test.cxx
+++ b/Database/APR/RootCollection/test/ttree_rw_test.cxx
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 
 int main ATLAS_NOT_THREAD_SAFE ()
 {
-   (void)remove("test_collection.root");
    try {
       std::cout << "Read test starting..." << std::endl;
       TestDriver driver( "test_collection",  "RootCollection", "" );