Sorry, my previous post was not properly attached; I attached my idea: Dear Smith, It is curious; I am not sure about what I am going to suggest since I never had that problem but the simplest explanation I found is that you have some Line Endings issues. Windows, Mac and Unix all use different codes to end a line in a text file. A file that is scripted with Windows has Windows line ending (DOS-like) and may not be properly read on Mac or Linux machine. Let me explain: by using WordPad and notepad you might have changed the end line of your PDB/mtz file from UNIX-based (or Mac) line endings to Windows-based Line endings. Line endings cannot be detected by simple inspecting the file, but some programs (in this case Coot) can have problem to open them. To be safe, try by opening your files with such a program (TextWrangler for ex. in Mac) and save the file with the correct line ending for your machine (Mac, Linux or Windows). I attached a picture for reference to show you the option you have in TextWrangler when you use Save as… option (other text editors should have similar options)
Best wishes Fulvio Il giorno 05/mar/2015, alle ore 14:51, Robbie Joosten <robbie_joos...@hotmail.com> ha scritto: > Hi Smith, > > If this is really the problem Ian describes, you can try the Linux programs > unix2dos and dos2unix the change the line endings. A potential source of the > problem might be copying the file with certain (S)FTP clients: in 'text-mode' > they change the line endings to your OS default to be user friendly. > > Cheers, > Robbie > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of >> Ian Tickle >> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 14:04 >> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] how to recover my data >> >> Hi Smith >> >> >> I sympathise with your plight - I have had to do similar things in the past >> for >> other people! I think your most fruitful course of action would be to talk >> to >> the technician who recovered your data because only he knows what he >> actually did to recover it. >> >> >> From your description of your recovery of the PDB file it looks to me like a >> line terminator issue, i.e. was the original file created in Linux, Windows >> or >> Mac? This is relevant because the line terminators are different and it >> sounds like the technician didn't simply copy the file, he changed the line >> terminators. If he did the same with the MTZ file thinking it was a text >> file >> the additional line terminators would corrupt the binary data making it >> impossible to read with any of the CCP4 MTZ utilities. If you can understand >> exactly what the technician did you may be able to reverse it and recover the >> binary data. >> >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> -- Ian >> >> >> On 5 March 2015 at 05:36, Smith Lee <00000459ef8548d5-dmarc- >> requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> >> >> Dear All, >> >> Recently my computer hardware has been broken and all the data >> has been recovered to movable hardware by technician. However I find the >> recovered PDB file and the MTZcould not be openned by Coot. Then I open >> the revovered PDB file by WordPad, and from WordPad I copied it to >> notepad and save it as pdb file. I find the Coot can open the notepad saved >> pdb file, thus my pdb files can be succesfully recovered from the hardware. >> >> But will you please tell me how to have Coot open my mtz file? After >> data recovery by the technicial, the data size of the mtz file did not >> decrease, >> thus I think there is a way to have it recovered. >> >> I have not noticed there were similar or identical posts as mine for >> recovery data before in the CCP4 mail list. >> >> Thus I am looking forward to getting a reply from you on how to >> recover my mtz file. >> >> >> Smith >> >>
