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Hi Smith

I sympathise with your plight - I have had to do similar things in the past for other people!  I think your most fruitful course of action would be to talk to the technician who recovered your data because only he knows what he actually did to recover it.

From your description of your recovery of the PDB file it looks to me like a line terminator issue, i.e. was the original file created in Linux, Windows or Mac?  This is relevant because the line terminators are different and it sounds like the technician didn't simply copy the file, he changed the line terminators.  If he did the same with the MTZ file thinking it was a text file the additional line terminators would corrupt the binary data making it impossible to read with any of the CCP4 MTZ utilities.  If you can understand exactly what the technician did you may be able to reverse it and recover the binary data.

Hope this helps!

Cheers

-- Ian

On 5 March 2015 at 05:36, Smith Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear All,
 
Recently my computer hardware has been broken and all the data has been recovered to movable hardware by technician. However I find the recovered PDB file and the MTZcould not be openned by Coot. Then I open the revovered PDB file by WordPad, and from WordPad I copied it to notepad and save it as pdb file. I find the Coot can open the notepad saved pdb file, thus my pdb files can be succesfully recovered from the hardware.
 
But will you please tell me how to have Coot open my mtz file? After data recovery by the technicial, the data size of the mtz file did not decrease, thus I think there is a way to have it recovered.

I have not noticed there were similar or identical posts as mine for recovery data before in the CCP4 mail list.
 
Thus I am looking forward to getting a reply from you on how to recover my mtz file.
 
Smith