Many thanks Eric for the prompt reply I set up a test directory ls /Users/george/Desktop/ChimeraX_test color_delta_epsilon_divergence.cxc delta_kd.defattr color_delta_epsilon_kdshift.cxc epsilon_2IMI.pdb delta_1PN9.pdb epsilon_div.defattr delta_div.defattr epsilon_kd.defattr I have renamed the files as per your suggestion. I get: open <help:user/commands/open.html> /Users/george/Desktop/ChimeraX_test/color_delta_epsilon_divergence.cxc open <help:user/commands/open.html> ~Desktop/ChimeraX_test/delta_1PN9.pdb No such file/path: ~Desktop/ChimeraX_test/delta_1PN9.pdb Have I goofed somewhere else? George
On 28 Oct 2025, at 17:22, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi George, A ChimeraX command script file needs to have a suffix of .cxc . Yours has a suffix of .cxs (which is the suffix for ChimeraX session files).
--Eric
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 28, 2025, at 10:09 AM, George Tzotzos via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
I’d be grateful for your help
My script is: # Auto-generated by make_chimerax_assets.py # Visualize L1 composition divergence on delta (1PN9) and epsilon (2IMI) open viz/delta_1PN9.pdb open viz/epsilon_2IMI.pdb defattr viz/delta_div.defattr model #1 defattr viz/epsilon_div.defattr model #2 style #1,#2 cartoon cartoon smoothRibbon true color byattribute divergence palette bluesred range 0,1 #1 color byattribute divergence palette bluesred range 0,1 #2 key colorbar palette bluesred range 0,1 label "Δ composition (L1)" pos 0.85,0.15 size 0.03,0.5 lighting soft zoom true
When I try to open the color_delta_epsilon_divergence.cxs (see above), I get: RuntimeError: Not a ChimeraX session file
File "/Applications/ChimeraX-1.10.1.app/Contents/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/chimerax/core/session.py", line 798, in restore raise RuntimeError("Not a ChimeraX session file”)
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