Sorry here is the complete traceback >>> Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1345, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "/data/prog/ccpnmr/ccpnmr1.0/python/ccpnmr/analysis/CopyChainAssignmentsPopup.py", line 440, in copyAssignments duplicateResidueAssignments(residueA, residueB,experimentChains=experimentChains) File "/data/prog/ccpnmr/ccpnmr1.0/python/ccpnmr/analysis/MoleculeBasic.py", line 256, in duplicateResidueAssignments project = residueA.root AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'root'