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On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Emilia C. Arturo (Emily)
I'd like to take a phenix project (on which I've been working successfully on the Mac where I initially created the project) from one Mac to another Mac. When I tried to use the 'Import project' tool on the new computer, I got a notification that "[...] the directory must contain the PHENIX project tracking data (a sub-directory named 'phenix' or '.phenix', and associated files)." Unfortunately, I didn't see a sub-directory named 'phenix' or '.phenix' in the folder where all my project files had been created and stored, and wasn't sure what to do about it, so I proceeded with the Import anyway, to see what would happen. On the new computer, the project was imported seemingly successfully (e.g. the project history is all there), but when I tried to Run a refinement I'd configured for this project, I got an error about the missing '.phenix' file. The error is: "Cannot open file for write: [...] No such file or directory: [...]/.phenix/project_data/refine_22.eff'
Can someone help me figure out how to properly move a project from one computer to another?
It sounds like you have done at least part of the import successfully - otherwise you would not be able to see the job history. You would not normally see the ".phenix" folder in the Mac Finder even if it is present, because all file/folder names starting with "." are hidden. However, if you copy over the entire folder - not just a selection of its contents - this should have been copied along with everything else. To figure out what is breaking I need to see exactly the error messages it produces, with the original directory paths explicitly stated. Could you please send me these off-list? thanks, Nat