Hi Paul - I'm a little late on this thread, but thought I'd add my 2ยข. Probably the easiest way get around this issue (as you realize) is probably to save a 1.7.4.5-compatible PSE file. But, for the adventurous, there is another way:
With a small effort (and the willingness to use the command line), your students with Macs can replace the older Educational build of MacPyMOL with a current version of Open Source PyMOL for free using the command line package manager, Homebrew<http://brew.sh/>. They just need to open up Terminal.app and type the following 3 commands: # Install Homebrew (run the command below, which downloads the installer, and follow the prompts) /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" # Install XQuartz brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz # Install PyMOL brew install pymol Pretty much everything homebrew installs goes into `/usr/local/Cellar` and gets symlinked to `/usr/local/bin`, and shouldn't interfere with any other standard software. One notable exception is that Homebrew Cask<https://caskroom.github.io/> items like Xquartz.app typically go into /Applications, because Cask handles the downloading of apps and installers and runs installers automatically. Of course, you can just as easily download XQuartz from the project website<https://www.xquartz.org/> and install it manually if you prefer. It may take a few minutes to build PyMOL and its few dependencies. But that's it! Now to open PyMOL they can open a Terminal window, `cd` to whatever directory they want to work in, and launch PyMOL by typing `pymol`. This would not only get them a more up-to-date PyMOL version, but as an added bonus, a little exposure to a Unix command line environment. Hope that helps. Cheers, Jared On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Paul Paukstelis <shocksofmig...@gmail.com<mailto:shocksofmig...@gmail.com>> wrote: Are there known session issues with MacPymol? I've saved a session for my students to look at using my linux incentive linux build and tried various session compatibility settings (1.6, 1.74, 1.76) but in all cases the preset scenes I've saved in the session are not loaded when the session is opened in MacPymol (educational version 1.7.6 I believe). Thanks, --paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net>) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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