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Saving your work
After creating a set of attractive and informative representations of your
molecule, you may want to save your work so that you can regenerate the
scene later. There are two ways to do this in VMD:
- In the main menu, press the Save State button found in the
File menu; this will bring up
a browser window where you can enter a file name in which to save your work.
- In the text console, type save_state filename, where
filename is the name of the file in which to save your work.
To restore your scene, you also have three choices:
- Use the Load State item in the File manu to select and
load a previously saved VMD session.
- From the command line, start VMD with the options
vmd -e filename, where filename was the name of the file you
saved before.
- After starting VMD, from the text console, type play filename.
The most common source of problems is when VMD can't find the files you
used to load the molecule. If this happens, try changing to the directory
you were in when you first loaded the molecule, or edit the state file and
use the full path names where you see mol new,
mol addfile, or mol load commands.
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