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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed May 13 2015 - 01:49:00 CDT

Hi,
  The number of atoms is not likely to be a problem, more likely there
is some kind of formatting issue with your PSF file. How did you
generate it?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:08:25PM +0530, Jeeno Jose wrote:
> Dear all
>
> While I was loading my PSF file which contains 1200 atoms, I got the
> following messages:
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> *psfplugin) Failed to parse segname in PSF file:psfplugin) ' 1146
> 10 ABC C6 C6 0.000000 15.0344 0'couldn't read atom
> 1145ERROR) molecule_structure: Unable to read structure for molecule
> 1ERROR) molecule_structure: severe error indicated by plugin aborting
> loading ofmolecule 1*
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> Whereas, when I tried to load a smaller domain which contains only 960
> atoms (everything same w.r.t to the domain of 1200 atoms, just differs in
> total number of atoms), it loaded. Is there any limit of 1144 atoms in VMD?
> I used to do load 1200 atoms in my previous installations of VMD 1.9.2.
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> Is there any setting which I should change to resolve this?
>
> Thank you
> Jeeno Jose 

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