[chimerax-users] Problems to save my file

[Guillaume Gaullier]

Hello Émilie,

You need to save as a session file, which, next time you open it, will bring back most things as you left them (saving as a PDB or a CIF file only saves atom coordinates, because this is what these formats are designed to represent).

You can simply use the following command:

save /path/to/your/file.cxs

If you give the “save” command a file name ending with .cxs, it will know to save the entire session. Then double-click on this file, or open it with the “open” command in ChimeraX, to bring back your session as you left it.

You can also adjust other things with options to the save command, but the defaults are good for most use cases. See the documentation here (or run “help save” in ChimeraX’s command prompt):

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html#session

I hope this helps,

Guillaume

> On 22 Nov 2020, at 15:47, EMILIE MONTELLIER <emilie.montellier at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear ChimeraX Users, 
> I am a new user of ChimeraX and I struggled with saving my files. I have a very naive question.
> I have downloaded a PDB file for p53 protein structure, then I did some modifications of the structural representation using ChimeraX. Then, I would like to save my file, with this new representation to work on it later. The problem is when I save and open again, it shows the representation from the PDB I originally downloaded, but without the work I have been doing on it.
> In other words: which settings should I use to save my file to keep all the visual modifications I have been doing? I would like to open the file on Chimera later, and continue my work on this file.
> Thanks by advance for your help, 
> Regards, 
> Emilie
> 
> -------------------------------
> Emilie Montellier, PhD
> 
> MSCA Post-doctoral Researcher
> Institute for Advanced Biosciences - Grenoble, France
> Prof. Pierre Hainaut's laboratory
> Tel: +33 (0)4 76 54 95 76
> Email: emilie.montellier at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
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