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From: J. Rui Rodrigues (joaquim.rodrigues_at_estg.ipleiria.pt)
Date: Wed Nov 11 2009 - 11:51:38 CST

John,

No, actually, I'm referring to some extensions such as Timeline, or RMSD trajectory tool. For example, in terminal,
I cd to /Users/jrui/today, load some data with mol new, then Extensions->Analysis->Timeline, do calculation,
then from Timeline's window, File-> Write Data File... The file chooser points to some directory
/Users/jrui/yesterday, instead of the current working dir /Users/jrui/today
If one forgets to change directory, file is saved to the wrong directory.

Interestingly, if I set env(VMDFILECHOOSER) FLTK, the FLTK file chooser uses the current working directory, but it
seems that neither Timeline nor RMSD traj tool use this file chooser...

Thanks,
Rui

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:13:36 -0600, John Stone wrote
> Rui,
> If you're referring to loading a saved state, it would just
> be an issue of the filenames that were recorded in the saved state
> file. You can edit a VMD saved state file to make the filenames
> use relative paths, or you can do the opposite and use fully qualified
> paths for the files. The VMD saved state is nothing more than a Tcl
> script, so you can edit as much as you like.
> Let us know if you need more help with this.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:54:01PM 0000, J. Rui Rodrigues wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > While some graphical commands/extensions of VMD take the current working directory for reading/writing
files,
> > others remember the last directory used in some previous session. Is there a way to force vmd to forget the
working
> > directory from a previous session and always use the current one? Where is that information stored anyway?
> > I'm using VMD 1.8.7 on an Intel Mac 10.5.8.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rui Rodrigues
>
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