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From: Peter Freddolino (petefred_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 08:56:39 CST

Hi Steve,
when you move the file.vmd to another computer, do you also take the
loaded structures with you? The vmd savestates do not encapsulate all of
the loaded structural data (whether or not they should is a point of
some debate in the user/developer community -- it would be convenient,
but horribly complicated and potentially massive for large structures);
they just have the locations of the files that should be loaded and the
set of commands necessary to set up the saved representations and such.
So if you move the structures along as well as the save state, it should
work. If it doesn't, please let us know what error output you receive in
the vmd console.

Best,
Peter

Steve Seibold wrote:
>
> I am a newbie to VMD and found that if I make a file.vmd on one
> computer and try to open it using VMD on another computer using the
> same version of VMD (both in windows) it does not work. I, presently,
> have to remake the vmd file on the separate computers. If I save a pdb
> file there is no problem. Just with saving file as a “file.vmd”. I
> tried to find information on this problem using your google and your
> user email directory, but could not find anything.
>
> Could someone inform me as to what the problem is?
>
> Thanks, Steve
>