Hi Barry, Currently a Chimera session just includes the model names, which are often the names of the files they were opened from, but not the entire paths to those files. These names are listed in the Model Panel (Favorites... Model Panel).

If you had just opened the file in the current session, the entire pathname is remembered and can be viewed in the Model Panel - click the Model Panel's "Configure..." button, go to the Columns section, check "Input File." Although sessions currently do not retain this information, your question has brought up the point that they probably should. We will put that improvement on the "to do" list.

Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html

On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Barry Lever wrote:

Elaine: I know you are busy .. but as a fairly new user....when I restore a previous session.. can I extract from Chimera, the names of the input data files that were used to create that molecule and subsequent manipulations- I am especially interested to know where I can locate the name of the input geometry file that set up the molecule. In future I will know to include that information in the overall session file name but for now..... Thanks so much Barry