I am afraid that it is us who will need to conform eventually :), same to say about "Program Files (x86)" and the overall culture in Windows, the system where some 40% (!!!!) of CCP4 users have chosen to work.

Eugene


On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:03, Mark J van Raaij wrote:

> completely agree with avoiding spaces in paths and file names, but Google Drive is very handy for sharing files, so every once in a while I forget to move a file someone shares with me before running Unix programs on it and get strange errors. Depending on how awake one is at the time finding out the source can be time-consuming...Google should really remove the space!
> 
> Mark J van Raaij
> Lab 20B
> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas
> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
> c/Darwin 3
> E-28049 Madrid, Spain
> tel. (+34) 91 585 4616
> http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:47, Eugene Krissinel wrote:
> 
>> I take this chance to to confirm once more, as publicly as possible, that file paths with spaces are discouraged in today's CCP4. This inconvenience originates from ancient times in computing when good half of CCP4 was written and when spaces were disallowed on file system nodes.
>> 
>> Please take a notice of this fact as CCP4 core still receives (albeit infrequent) bug reports, where surprising behaviour is due to using file paths with white spaces.
>> 
>> Fixing this has proved to be a hard problem, purely because of technical choices made quite a number of years ago. But good news are that this limitation will be removed in new CCP4 Gui under development.
>> 
>> Eugene
>> 
>> On 3 Jun 2014, at 08:23, Mark J van Raaij wrote:
>> 
>>> This also occurred to me once where the file path had a space,(/Google Drive/), when I moved the file somewhere else it worked. I was using baverage from the CCP4i GUI.
>>> 
>>> Mark J van Raaij
>>> Lab 20B
>>> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas
>>> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
>>> c/Darwin 3
>>> E-28049 Madrid, Spain
>>> tel. (+34) 91 585 4616
>>> http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 3 Jun 2014, at 09:20, Tim Gruene wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear Bing,
>>>> 
>>>> can you post the exact command you were using, please? Also please check
>>>> with a different PDB file. In case you are using baverage from the
>>>> command line, can you make sure you are actually using the program from
>>>> ccp4 by typing 'which baverage' at the command prompt?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards.
>>>> Tim
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/02/2014 10:16 PM, Wang, Bing wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi CCP4,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Recently when I input my pdb file and run the baverage in the ccp4 suit to check the temperature factor, it always tell me "No tables were fund in this file." Could you tell me how to fix this problem? Or is there another software instead of baverage I could use to check the temperature factor?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bing
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
>>>> Tammannstr. 4
>>>> D-37077 Goettingen
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