[Chimera-users] Not Responding

[Chad Junkermeier]

Hello,
I have been having strange behavior lately with opening coordinate files.  I am 
using xyz format files with up to 500 atoms.  When I tell Chimera to open one of 
these files the computer sits for a moment and then starts reporting that 
Chimera is "Not Responding."  I have tried this on three different Mac 
computers, one using OS X 10.6.7 (iMac Core i7, 8 GB Ram, ATI Radeon HD 4850) 
with all of the latest updates, one using OS X 10.6.7 (iMac Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 
Ram, NVIDIA GeForce 9400), and one 3 or 4 year old Macbook that has (4GB RAM, 
and I don't know anything else).  On each of these machines I have tried using a 
variety of different versions of your code, and I continually find that I have 
the same problem.  I also just installed Chimera on a Windows XP machine and it 
has similar issues.

The xyz files are the product of relaxing a graphene sheet in Quantum Espresso, 
and then copying and pasting the final configuration out of the QE output file 
into a xyz file.

Here are a few of the things that puzzle me.  First, if I place the input 
configuration of atoms into a xyz file, Chimera will read in the structures 
without any problems. The output xyz files work in VMD and in iMol.  I thought 
that it might be an issue with the xyz data structure and transformed it to PBD 
and it still wouldn't load.  I also wondered if it was an issue of too many 
decimal points (higher precision than the input file), but after reducing the 
number of decimal points of each coordinate on all of the atoms, it still 
wouldn't work.  I have looked through some of the output files and there doesn't 
appear to be any weirdness in any of the files.

Further complicating this issue is that sometimes, after if I let it sit for a 
while, the program magically starts working.  

Again, I have no problem opening other files.

Does anyone have any ideas on what to do to fix this problem?


Chad
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