How to add multiple files created over multi threads in TThread into one file

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I am using TThreads to perform a calibration process over multiple threads. My primary input file is around 5 GB and I am spawning my threads to fill the histograms over 1024 channels quickly and then calibrating them separately. In the end, I am able to write multiple TFiles (depends on number of threads) in output with calibrated values. I want to know if I can merge all these files into one in the same code itself. I tried to use TBufferMerger but it leaves me in an infinite loop every time. Is there any efficient way to do this??
The code is attached below.

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void* write_outfile(void* ptr){
gROOT->cd();
Long64_t* N = (Long64_t*) ptr;
gROOT->SetBatch();
ROOT::EnableThreadSafety();
// std::string fileName = oname;
// ROOT::Experimental::TBufferMerger merger(“testfile.root”, “RECREATE”);
// auto file = merger.GetFile();

for(auto j=N[1]; j<N[2]; j++){
   
    // auto tree = new TTree("data","data");
    // tree->Branch("q",&qcalib,"qcalib[1024]/F");
    // tree->Branch("t",&tcalib,"tcalib[1024]/l");
    chain[N[0]]->GetEntry(j);
    for(CHID=channel_start;CHID<=channel_end;CHID++){
        if(CHID >63 && CHID <320){continue;}
        if(q[CHID]>0 ){
            //Float_t S= pow(q[CHID],par[CHID][2]);
            //qcalib[CHID]=par[CHID][0]*pow(par[CHID][1],S)+par[CHID][3]*q[CHID]-par[CHID][0];
            qcalib[CHID] = q[CHID]*S[CHID];
        }
        else{continue;}
    }
    tree[N[0]]->Fill();
}
outfile[N[0]]->Write();
return 0;

}

void write_outfile_over_threads()
{
array<TThread*,nth> VT1;
array<Long64_t[3],nth> par1;

for(int i=0; i<nth; i++){
    par1[i][0] = i;
    par1[i][1] = i*(N/nth);
    par1[i][2] = (i+1)*(N/nth);
    VT1[i] = new TThread((string("T")+to_string(i)).data(), write_outfile, (void*) par1[i]);
}

for(int i=0;i<nth;i++) VT1[i]->Run();
for(int i=0;i<nth;i++) VT1[i]->Join();

}

ROOT Version: 6.22.08
Platform: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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This seems a duplicate of How to merge TFiles created over different threads - #4 by Siddharth_Parashari , let’s continue there.