Select multiple files and open in the same instance
I used to have Chimera configured to select multiple files, click open, and have them all open in the same instance. After I reinstalled it, now it opens an instance for every file, how can I change it back? Regards.
Hi Ahmad, I'm guessing you are using MacOS Catalina, for which this is a known problem. Sorry, there is no Chimera setting to control it. One possibility is to use ChimeraX instead, which does not have this problem, but it depends on which tools/features you are using. ChimeraX has the same map fitting and many other things as Chimera. Some currently missing features are listed in the ChimeraX download page. This separate-instance problem was mentioned in earlier posts, for example: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2020-June/016910.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Oct 29, 2020, at 10:56 PM, Ahmad Khalifa <underoath006@gmail.com> wrote:
I used to have Chimera configured to select multiple files, click open, and have them all open in the same instance. After I reinstalled it, now it opens an instance for every file, how can I change it back?
Regards.
I'm using windows actually. Thank you. On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 8:38 AM Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Ahmad, I'm guessing you are using MacOS Catalina, for which this is a known problem. Sorry, there is no Chimera setting to control it. One possibility is to use ChimeraX instead, which does not have this problem, but it depends on which tools/features you are using. ChimeraX has the same map fitting and many other things as Chimera. Some currently missing features are listed in the ChimeraX download page.
This separate-instance problem was mentioned in earlier posts, for example: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2020-June/016910.html>
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Oct 29, 2020, at 10:56 PM, Ahmad Khalifa <underoath006@gmail.com> wrote:
I used to have Chimera configured to select multiple files, click open, and have them all open in the same instance. After I reinstalled it, now it opens an instance for every file, how can I change it back?
Regards.
Try using the Browser Configuration tool in Tools / Utilities to reset the file type associations to the current Chimera. That was designed for Windows 7, but it might still work. -- Greg On 10/30/2020 10:17 AM, Ahmad Khalifa wrote:
I'm using windows actually. Thank you.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 8:38 AM Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu>> wrote:
Hi Ahmad, I'm guessing you are using MacOS Catalina, for which this is a known problem. Sorry, there is no Chimera setting to control it. One possibility is to use ChimeraX instead, which does not have this problem, but it depends on which tools/features you are using. ChimeraX has the same map fitting and many other things as Chimera. Some currently missing features are listed in the ChimeraX download page.
This separate-instance problem was mentioned in earlier posts, for example: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2020-June/016910.html <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2020-June/016910.html>>
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
> On Oct 29, 2020, at 10:56 PM, Ahmad Khalifa <underoath006@gmail.com <mailto:underoath006@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I used to have Chimera configured to select multiple files, click open, and have them all open in the same instance. After I reinstalled it, now it opens an instance for every file, how can I change it back? > > Regards.
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