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From: Goedde, Chris (CGOEDDE_at_depaul.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2019 - 10:07:46 CDT

In the Finder, go to the folder where the vmd app is located and control-click or right-click on the app icon and choose “Show Package Contents” from the pop-up menu. Then go into the “Contents” folder, followed by the “vmd” folder. In there you’ll see a plugins folder, which has some sub-folders where you can install things.

In unix-speak, it’s going to be something like /Path to VMD folder/VMD 1.9.3.app/Contents/vmd/plugins

Chris

> On Oct 6, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Oscar Bastidas <obastida_at_umn.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have recently begun using a Mac where I have VMD installed and I would like to know where the VMD files for plugins and the such are stored on this platform. I have checked online but everyone just references the Application folder where the main launching VMD icon is stored and no ancillary folders for plugins or anything else is located there.
>
> Running VMD and typing the following at the command line certainly yields what seems to be the location of the VMD files, but it points to the aforementioned Application folder:
>
> global env; puts $env(VMDDIR)
>
> Is it impossible to install plugins on VMD on a Mac? Thanks.
>
> Oscar
>
> Oscar Bastidas, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Research Associate
> University of Minnesota