[Chimera-users] unable to open more than one map in Chimera

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Alan,
Somebody reminded me that there was an issue with drag-and-drop to Chimera on Catalina, as discussed in this post from a year ago:
<https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2020-June/016910.html>

There is no fix for Chimera, but it works fine in ChimeraX.  Our group's development efforts are all on ChimeraX now, and you may want to consider switching.  It has many of the same features (fitting, segmentation, etc.) and many advantages (better on large data, many usability improvements, and several entirely new features).

<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/>
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/advantages.html>

Salient features that are still missing are listed in a section on the download page (click the triangle to expand the section), and certainly you can install both programs and mix-n-match usage as needed.
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/download.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine

> On Jul 6, 2021, at 11:27 AM, Elaine Meng via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alan,
> Can you clarify what method of opening you were using?  E.g. I'm using Catalina on my Mac and commands like this work fine in both Chimera and ChimeraX:
> 
> cd ~/Desktop
> open amap.mrc bmap.mrc
> 
> Thanks
> Elaine
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> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
>> On Jul 5, 2021, at 6:26 PM, Merk, Alan (NIH/NCI) [C] via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> I recently updated to Catalina on my Mac and I am now not able to open more than one file at a time in Chimera.  Uninstalling the program and then installing the latest version from scratch did not fix the problem.  Is there any way to resolve this issue?
>> Alan