Thanks David. This worked flawlessly... I made one of my .pdb files a favorite in Dropbox app, set the iPad to airplane mode, so no wifi, back to Dropbox app, tapped the .pdb file, and selected open in pymol from the actions button. My molecule was right there with no network connection.
Seems like this is likely a generally useful trick for getting the iPad to act more like a computer with a traditional file system. Thanks again, Steve Sent from my iPad On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:46 PM, David Hall <li...@cowsandmilk.net> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I'll suggest a workaround to having pymol cache the files: > > (1) Install the DropBox app > (2) Favorite your PDB files in that app, this will cache those files > locally within the DropBox app for offline access > (3) From the dropbox app, you can open PDB files in Pymol using the > button in the upper right corner, since the dropbox app has cached > them locally, PyMol just reads the file and doesn't need the internet > > -David > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Steve Williams <wil...@appstate.edu> wrote: >> I am a new subscriber to the pymol listserv. I did look around a bit on the >> listserv site, but did not find a way to search previous postings and >> responses, so did not find if there is a known answer to my question. >> Minor question: is there a way to search the pymol message archive, and if >> so, how to do it? >> Major question: I have been playing with the iPad version of pymol from >> Schrodinger. I know how to search pbd for structures,and how to view >> structures I have already found and saved to my pymol app folder on Dropbox. >> But I need to show some structures to an audience where I may not have wifi >> access for my iPad, and I would like to have the pymol iPad app locally save >> structure files so I can use them when I am off line. Is there a way to do >> this with the iPad? >> >> Thanks, >> Steve Williams >> >> Sent from my iPad >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: >> INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? >> Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. >> http://goparallel.sourceforge.net >> _______________________________________________ >> PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) >> Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
