[chimerax-users] Is there an output directory command for spin movies or morphs?

[Ralph Loring]

Hi,
I've given my students an assignment due on Monday which includes making a
spin movie.  About a third of the class tells me that they can see the
molecule spinning while the movie is compiling, but that they can't find
where the mp4 file goes.  I have no trouble using my laptop, but if I use
my office desktop computer, I have the same problem (see picture).  The
first two error messages were endogenously generated by ChimeraX, the last
3 were me trying to force the output directory.  When I spoke to our IT
people, they informed me that university computers are not allowed to save
files to the public desktop, but prefer that it go to the user desktop in
Onedrive.  My question is whether there's a command that I can give before
running a spin movie that specifies in what directory the output file
should be put?
Thanks,
Ralph

Ralph H. Loring
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
166 TF
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 USA
617-373-3216 office
617-373-8886 fax
r.loring at northeastern.edu
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