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From: Paweł Kędzierski (pawel.kedzierski_at_pwr.edu.pl)
Date: Fri Jul 23 2021 - 10:55:22 CDT

Dear Igor,
Changing the user name does not change the name of the underlying
folder. I believe the same goes for changing the system language,
because what you change is only the user interface/presentation layer
and the filesystem uses language-agnostic unicode. And I do confirm that
VMD has problems with national characters in the paths. What we see in
your pasted path are characters from DOS default codepage 437 which is
evidence of translation of multibyte encoding to DOS-era one byte
character table.

The simplest solution is to make a folder somewhere else, e.g.
C:\vmd_work using just ascii characters (and no spaces IIRC) and work there.
Cheers,
Pawel

W dniu 23.07.2021 o 11:33, Igor Gordiy pisze:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to open PDB file saved on my local computer using
> different versions of VMD (1.9.3 and 1.9.2). I have windows 10, 64bit.
> The PDB file is correct and can be correctly interpreted by other
> visualization programs such as PyMOL.
> When I am trying to open it with VMD I am receiving message " Could
> not read filr: C:/Users/Игорь/Desktop/ps2_new.pdb".
>
> I have tried to change the user name, now it is written in english. I
> have also tried to change the language of OS to english. Both did not
> work. By the way, direct uploading of PDB file from Internet is
> working well.
>
> What shall I do?
>
> Best regards,
> Igor Gordiy