Hi Eric Thanks for getting back to me. I’m just trying to save a .py file. Not sure how to save a compressed version… I’ve tried saving in different directories, but that didn’t work either. The session contains 5 PDB files and a single .mrc file (a low resolution EM dataset). The PDB files are 5 ~40 kDa proteins, so not huge. The disk I’m writing to has ~140 GB free out of 500. Sounds like one of those elusive problems… Please let me know if you’d like me to try anything else. Best regards Joel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professor Joel Mackay | NHMRC Senior Research Fellow Chair, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology Cluster School of Life and Environmental Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY A: School of Life and Environmental Sciences | Rm 674, Building G08 | Butlin Ave The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 | Australia T: +61 2 9351 3906 | F: +61 2 9351 5858 | S: joelmackay E: joel.mackay@sydney.edu.au | W: www.mmb.usyd.edu.au/mackay/ From: Eric Pettersen [mailto:pett@cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Friday, 11 August 2017 6:55 AM To: Joel Mackay <joel.mackay@sydney.edu.au> Cc: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] Error in Windows saving a session Hi Joel, We have had this reported infrequently by other users and have had no success in tracking it down. Can you answer a couple of questions for me? Are you writing a compressed session file? Is the disk you are writing to nearly full? Thanks. —Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab On Aug 9, 2017, at 2:45 AM, Joel Mackay <joel.mackay@sydney.edu.au<mailto:joel.mackay@sydney.edu.au>> wrote: Hi all Have other people seen (and solved!) this error before (below)? I’m having it crop up pretty much all the time now when I try to save a session (on my Win7 machine – running Chimera 1.11.2. Thanks Joel WindowsError Exception in Tk callback Function: <function command at 0x00000000155434A8> (type: <type 'function'>) Module: <module 'chimera.baseDialog' from 'C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\share\chimera\baseDialog.pyc'> (line: 447) Args: () Traceback (innermost last): File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\bin\lib\site-packages\Pmw\Pmw_1_3_3\lib\PmwBase.py", line 1747, in __call__ return apply(self.func, args) File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\share\chimera\baseDialog.py", line 449, in command getattr(s, buttonFuncName(txt))() File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\share\OpenSave\__init__.py", line 264, in Save getattr(self, self.keepEquiv())() File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\share\chimera\baseDialog.py", line 704, in OK self.Apply() File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\share\OpenSave\__init__.py", line 183, in Apply self.command(1, self) File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\share\SimpleSession\gui.py", line 41, in _saveCB saveSession(paths[0], **kw) File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\share\SimpleSession\save.py", line 135, in saveSession os.rename(tsave, filename) WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process File "C:\Program Files\Chimera 1.11.2\share\SimpleSession\save.py", line 135, in saveSession os.rename(tsave, filename) See reply log for Python traceback. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professor Joel Mackay | NHMRC Senior Research Fellow Chair, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology Cluster School of Life and Environmental Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY A: School of Life and Environmental Sciences | Rm 674, Building G08 | Butlin Ave The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 | Australia T: +61 2 9351 3906 | F: +61 2 9351 5858 | S: joelmackay E: joel.mackay@sydney.edu.au<mailto:joel.mackay@sydney.edu.au> | W: www.mmb.usyd.edu.au/mackay/<http://www.mmb.usyd.edu.au/mackay/> _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Manage subscription: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users>