I thought the addition of " ..." around file names got round this problem

eg
"This_is_Mine.pdb" and "That is Yours.pdb"

Eleanor




On 3 June 2014 13:15, Eugene Krissinel <eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

> I am afraid that it is us who will need to conform eventually :), same to
> say about "Program Files (x86)" and the overall culture in Windows, the
> system where some 40% (!!!!) of CCP4 users have chosen to work.
>
> Eugene
>
>
> On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:03, Mark J van Raaij wrote:
>
> > completely agree with avoiding spaces in paths and file names, but
> Google Drive is very handy for sharing files, so every once in a while I
> forget to move a file someone shares with me before running Unix programs
> on it and get strange errors. Depending on how awake one is at the time
> finding out the source can be time-consuming...Google should really remove
> the space!
> >
> > Mark J van Raaij
> > Lab 20B
> > Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas
> > Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
> > c/Darwin 3
> > E-28049 Madrid, Spain
> > tel. (+34) 91 585 4616
> > http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:47, Eugene Krissinel wrote:
> >
> >> I take this chance to to confirm once more, as publicly as possible,
> that file paths with spaces are discouraged in today's CCP4. This
> inconvenience originates from ancient times in computing when good half of
> CCP4 was written and when spaces were disallowed on file system nodes.
> >>
> >> Please take a notice of this fact as CCP4 core still receives (albeit
> infrequent) bug reports, where surprising behaviour is due to using file
> paths with white spaces.
> >>
> >> Fixing this has proved to be a hard problem, purely because of
> technical choices made quite a number of years ago. But good news are that
> this limitation will be removed in new CCP4 Gui under development.
> >>
> >> Eugene
> >>
> >> On 3 Jun 2014, at 08:23, Mark J van Raaij wrote:
> >>
> >>> This also occurred to me once where the file path had a space,(/Google
> Drive/), when I moved the file somewhere else it worked. I was using
> baverage from the CCP4i GUI.
> >>>
> >>> Mark J van Raaij
> >>> Lab 20B
> >>> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas
> >>> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
> >>> c/Darwin 3
> >>> E-28049 Madrid, Spain
> >>> tel. (+34) 91 585 4616
> >>> http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 3 Jun 2014, at 09:20, Tim Gruene wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Dear Bing,
> >>>>
> >>>> can you post the exact command you were using, please? Also please
> check
> >>>> with a different PDB file. In case you are using baverage from the
> >>>> command line, can you make sure you are actually using the program
> from
> >>>> ccp4 by typing 'which baverage' at the command prompt?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards.
> >>>> Tim
> >>>>
> >>>> On 06/02/2014 10:16 PM, Wang, Bing wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi CCP4,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Recently when I input my pdb file and run the baverage in the ccp4
> suit to check the temperature factor, it always tell me "No tables were
> fund in this file." Could you tell me how to fix this problem? Or is there
> another software instead of baverage I could use to check the temperature
> factor?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bing
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Dr Tim Gruene
> >>>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
> >>>> Tammannstr. 4
> >>>> D-37077 Goettingen
> >>>>
> >>>> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Scanned by iCritical.
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> Scanned by iCritical.
>
>

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