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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">/Thanks Eric! - I've noticed that
sometimes the problem exists, and sometimes it does not. But it
does not matter, as I am happy to rename the temporary file.
Encountering this problem did spur me on to learn about making
molmaps of pdb objects and then fitting mrc density maps into the
molmap, resampling the moved mrc maps, and saving them. So the
journey was useful!<br>
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Tracy<br>
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On 4/19/2018 7:48 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:<br>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Yes,
here’s what we think is happening. When Chimera writes out a
session file, it writes it out to a temporary file and then
moves that file to the desired final name. It does this to
prevent destroying an older, good session file if there is some
error encountered while saving the new session. So, the “file
with an odd name” that you saw is the temporary file. Chimera
wrote that out successfully and that’s why it worked when you
opened it. The problem is that between the time it finished
writing the file and the time it tried to move it to the final
name (which isn’t much time!) <i class="">some</i> program
running on your machine started reading it, resulting in the
error message about “being used by another process”. Now, we
don’t really know what the other mystery process is. it is most
likely a virus scanner or some other security software that
looks a <i class="">every</i> new file created on your machine.</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If
that rings any bells, perhaps you can configure the problematic
program to not try to scan files with a .py suffix…</div>
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<div class="">Hi Joel,<br class="">
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I noticed I have a similar problem as you posted using
Chimera on Windows, with saving a session giving the
error:<br class="">
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WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the
file because it is being used by another process<br
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In my case, using win10 and the current chimera as of
today, the program writes out a file that is of odd
name, even though I get the error message.<br class="">
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If I simply rename the file to something.py and open it
from Chimera it works as it should.<br class="">
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Sincerely,<br class="">
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Tracy<br class="">
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Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
332 S. Frear Lab
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
USA
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