Dear All, For the issue of the recovery of the mtz file, I have tried randomly
to use excel to open one specific mtz file, however in this way all the mtz
files in the computer will have a excel icon (X), although the file extension
is still .mtz. If I tried further to open one specific mtz file (with excel
icon) with the notepad, all the mtz files will have the notepad icon. If I
tried further to open one specific mtz file (with notepad icon) with the
wordpad, all the mtz files will have the wordpad icon. I hope these cluses can
be helpful for you to give me the advise on recovery of mtz files. Smith
On Thursday, March 5, 2015 11:51 PM, Robbie Joosten
<robbie_joos...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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
>
>
