[Chimera-users] Running Mole - error

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi Atanas,

	The MOLE plugin is trying to write some settings into the "current directory". When you start Chimera by double-clicking the icon, the "current directory" is some system directory that you don't have permission to write into. So, before you start the MOLE plugin you should change Chimera's current directory with the "cd" command (Favorites→Command Line). Specifically "cd ~" will make your home directory the current directory. The plugin should work after that.

--Eric

Eric Pettersen
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab


> On Dec 8, 2019, at 1:35 PM, Radkov, Atanas <Atanas.Radkov at ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Atanas Radkov, postdoc in Seemay Chou's lab at UCSF. I was wondering if you could help me set up Mole on Chimera. I installed it, as well as Mono, but I keep seeing the error below. Could you please let me know if there is a way to address this error? Thank you so much for your time and help!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Atanas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/toolbar.py", line 26, in _guard
>     func()
>   File "/Users/atanasdradkov/Downloads/Mole2_plugin/MOLE2_5/MainWindow.py", line 954, in <lambda>
>     icon, lambda d=chimera.dialogs.display, n=MainWindow.name: d(n), 'MOLE 2.5', None)
>   File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/dialogs.py", line 76, in display
>     dialog = find(name, create=1)
>   File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/dialogs.py", line 61, in find
>     return d()
>   File "/Users/atanasdradkov/Downloads/Mole2_plugin/MOLE2_5/MainWindow.py", line 353, in __init__
>     with open(CONFIGFILE, 'w') as f:
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '.MOLE_PluginSettings.txt'
> Error in toolbar callback:
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '.MOLE_PluginSettings.txt'
> 
>   File "/Users/atanasdradkov/Downloads/Mole2_plugin/MOLE2_5/MainWindow.py", line 353, in __init__
>     with open(CONFIGFILE, 'w') as f:
> 
> See reply log for Python traceback.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Atanas Radkov, PhD
> Postdoctoral Scholar
> Adviser: Professor Seemay Chou
> Biophysics and Biochemistry Department
> University of California - San Francisco
> Genentech Hall
> 600 16th str
> San Francisco, CA 94158
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