The error message is clear, it says the Desktop directory does not exist.  As Tony mentions the mix of back and forward slashes works.  So it probably is Microsoft OneDrive moving the Desktop folder that is the problem.  When I have seen OneDrive cause this type of error before it was different because OneDrive made ~/Desktop point to the shared user directory which is not writable and that produces a permission denied error.

A new feature in the ChimeraX daily build for the past few weeks is that you can specify where the Snapshot and Spin Movie toolbar icons should place their files if you do not want them on the Desktop.  For example

snapshot directory /Users/goddard/cximages

Documented here

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/snapshot.html

  Tom


On Aug 11, 2023, at 2:08 PM, Tristan Croll via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Are you using OneDrive by any chance? One annoying "feature" of OneDrive is that it moves your Desktop, Documents etc. folders into the OneDrive directory and removes them from your home directory.

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 8:48 PM Eric Pettersen via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:


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