Hi Laleh, If your preferences (Favorites… Preferences, category: Fetch) are set to save files in a download directory, they are already automatically saved locally in a subdirectory named EDS in the download directory. However, these files are in the .omap format, not MRC. Since you can fetch from EDS with the "open" command and write out a map in MRC format with the "volume" command, one possibility is to make a Chimera command script. Example commands: open edsID:2fw0 volume #0 save ~meng/Desktop/2fw0.mrc <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/volume.html#output> For combining commands with looping (for example, to process a large set of EDS IDs), see here: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/basicPrimer.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On May 29, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Laleh <lsoltang@cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
Hello. I'm wondering how I can fetch a bunch of EDS files (from the EDS server) and save them in my local machine in .mrc format. I don't want to do this manually one by one from the user interface... I tried to use open_volume_file with different settings; but it is not working... I'm surprised because this is very starightforward with pdb files. I appreciate your help. Thanks in Advance, Laleh