Yes, sorry for the mistake; Smith, did you try to open your .mtz file with matzdmp from a terminal window? is it possible to redirect the output from mtzdmp to a new file, I mean:
>mtzdmp corrupted_file.mtz > recovered_file.mtz ??? I don’t know... Fulvio Il giorno 05/mar/2015, alle ore 16:18, Harry Powell <ha...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> ha scritto: > Hi Fulvio > > MTZ files are binary, so I don't think they have line-endings in the sense > that text files do. > > On 5 Mar 2015, at 15:09, Fulvio Saccoccia, Sapienza wrote: > >> Sorry, my previous post was not properly attached; I attached my idea: >> >> Dear Smith, >> It is curious; I am not sure about what I am going to suggest since I >> never had that problem but the simplest explanation I found is that you have >> some Line Endings issues. Windows, Mac and Unix all use different codes to >> end a line in a text file. A file that is scripted with Windows has Windows >> line ending (DOS-like) and may not be properly read on Mac or Linux machine. >> Let me explain: by using WordPad and notepad you might have changed the end >> line of your PDB/mtz file from UNIX-based (or Mac) line endings to >> Windows-based Line endings. Line endings cannot be detected by simple >> inspecting the file, but some programs (in this case Coot) can have problem >> to open them. >> To be safe, try by opening your files with such a program (TextWrangler for >> ex. in Mac) and save the file with the correct line ending for your machine >> (Mac, Linux or Windows). I attached a picture for reference to show you the >> option you have in TextWrangler when you use Save as… option (other text >> editors should have similar options) >> <sconosciuto.png> >> >> Best wishes >> Fulvio >> >> >> Il giorno 05/mar/2015, alle ore 14:51, Robbie Joosten >> <robbie_joos...@hotmail.com> ha scritto: >> >>> Hi Smith, >>> >>> If this is really the problem Ian describes, you can try the Linux programs >>> unix2dos and dos2unix the change the line endings. A potential source of >>> the problem might be copying the file with certain (S)FTP clients: in >>> 'text-mode' they change the line endings to your OS default to be user >>> friendly. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Robbie >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of >>>> Ian Tickle >>>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 14:04 >>>> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >>>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] how to recover my data >>>> >>>> Hi Smith >>>> >>>> >>>> I sympathise with your plight - I have had to do similar things in the >>>> past for >>>> other people! I think your most fruitful course of action would be to >>>> talk to >>>> the technician who recovered your data because only he knows what he >>>> actually did to recover it. >>>> >>>> >>>> From your description of your recovery of the PDB file it looks to me like >>>> a >>>> line terminator issue, i.e. was the original file created in Linux, >>>> Windows or >>>> Mac? This is relevant because the line terminators are different and it >>>> sounds like the technician didn't simply copy the file, he changed the line >>>> terminators. If he did the same with the MTZ file thinking it was a text >>>> file >>>> the additional line terminators would corrupt the binary data making it >>>> impossible to read with any of the CCP4 MTZ utilities. If you can >>>> understand >>>> exactly what the technician did you may be able to reverse it and recover >>>> the >>>> binary data. >>>> >>>> >>>> Hope this helps! >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> >>>> -- Ian >>>> >>>> >>>> On 5 March 2015 at 05:36, Smith Lee <00000459ef8548d5-dmarc- >>>> requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Dear All, >>>> >>>> Recently my computer hardware has been broken and all the data >>>> has been recovered to movable hardware by technician. However I find the >>>> recovered PDB file and the MTZcould not be openned by Coot. Then I open >>>> the revovered PDB file by WordPad, and from WordPad I copied it to >>>> notepad and save it as pdb file. I find the Coot can open the notepad saved >>>> pdb file, thus my pdb files can be succesfully recovered from the hardware. >>>> >>>> But will you please tell me how to have Coot open my mtz file? After >>>> data recovery by the technicial, the data size of the mtz file did not >>>> decrease, >>>> thus I think there is a way to have it recovered. >>>> >>>> I have not noticed there were similar or identical posts as mine for >>>> recovery data before in the CCP4 mail list. >>>> >>>> Thus I am looking forward to getting a reply from you on how to >>>> recover my mtz file. >>>> >>>> >>>> Smith >>>> >>>> >> > > Harry > -- > Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, > Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH > Chairman of International Union of Crystallography Commission on > Crystallographic Computing > Chairman of European Crystallographic Association SIG9 (Crystallographic > Computing) > > > > > > > > > >
