<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If you are on a system where you started Chimera from a terminal window (usually Linux, but sometimes Mac) you <i>may</i> be able to get Chimera to interrupt a minimization without crashing by typing your interrupt character (usually control-C) in the terminal window.<div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><div><div>On Oct 11, 2012, at 6:20 PM, Elaine Meng wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On the other hand, I don't know of a way to interrupt minimization, if that was the question! I guess you could force-quit Chimera, but then you really would lose everything. <br>Elaine<br><br>On Oct 11, 2012, at 5:51 PM, Elaine Meng wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 11, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Thomas W. Sturgill wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Elaine,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Is there a way to interrupt minimization run without losing everything?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Is this running on the laptop or at a computer at UCSF?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Any link to list of your prior answers to questions on the minimization?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thank you,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Tom Sturgill<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi Thomas,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There is no "restart" if you interrupt the minimization, but you will still have the coordinates of the last update (you don't lose everything). The calculation runs on your own computer. You can see the minimization help by clicking the Help button on the GUI, or using command "help minimize".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/minimize/minimize.html">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/minimize/minimize.html</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please send Chimera questions to <a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a> instead of to me personally -- the chimera-users messages can be searched (for example, for "minimization"):<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/feedback.html">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/feedback.html</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Elaine<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">University of California, San Francisco<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br></body></html>