August 2010 - Ifeffit - millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov

Updating Ifeffit manually
by hemantha aranwela 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi Matt, Thanks for the information. I could not get the runner.exe to work. So installed the updates directly as you suggested. It works perfectly. Aranwela These were the steps I have followed. Updating Ifeffit manually (if, somehow, it does not update automatically) 1. Check the latest update installed (typically in C:\Program Files\Ifeffit\config\iff_xxx). In my case it was iff_009. 2. Then check the current available update level from the cars webpage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ifeffit/updates/current.dat At present it is at 013. 3. Download the missing updates from http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ifeffit/updates/iff_XXX.zip Remember you need to change XXX to the appropriate file # (to 010 for an example). ( I had to download iff_010, iff_011, iff_012 and iff_013 and saved them on to the desktop). 4. These are zipped files. Need to unzip those into the C:\Program Files\Ifeffit folder. But one has to do this in sequence (it is said). ( In my case I unzipped 010 first then 011, next 012 and 013 after that. Unzipping is easy in windows 7. Just right click on the zipped folder and select ‘extract all’ then browse to the Ifeffit folder (In my case C:\Program Files\Ifeffit). It will prompt you to choose between two or three options. (In all cases I chose ‘copy and replace’ or just ‘replace’. That’a all. Everything should work perfectly. Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:06:47 -0500 From: Matt Newville <newville(a)cars.uchicago.edu> To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit <ifeffit(a)millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov> Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 90, Issue 7 Message-ID: <AANLkTinvBiq0ES9TLN2Air38tWw4VgCroOSJbsCSNU7X(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Aranwela, Thanks for the report. I do think this is a permissions problem. That's not to say it's not a real problem, just that it should be solvable. I just tested this by resetting the "update level" in config/current.dat, and forcing the updater to run. It worked fine to download and install the update. That was on a Mac running Windows 7 (64 bit) as a virtual machine. The account I used does have full Administrator control. The process running the updater definitely needs to be be able to write to C:\Program Files\Ifeffit (or wherever you installed to). Would you be willing to try to download the update zip file (say, iff_013.zip) and unzip it into your installation directory, as described at http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/IfeffitOnWindows/WinUpdater and let us know what does and doesn't work? I'm sure that others would find your report helpful. Cheers, --Matt

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Re: [Ifeffit] IFEFFIT update (windows7)
by hemantha aranwela 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi Todd, Thanks for the information. But I have already tried that. Doesn't work for me. But since it has worked for you I guess the problem is still in my computer. Unfortunately I do not know what it is. So, I am going to download and install updates directly as Matt has suggested. Thanks. Aranwela Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:52:28 -0600 From: "Monson, Todd" <tmonson(a)sandia.gov> To: "ifeffit(a)millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov" <ifeffit(a)millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov> Subject: [Ifeffit] updating Athena in Win 7 Message-ID: <AC050BA7EAC9A34E9A05BC31C3AA2E8B186774E38A(a)ES02SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Aranwela, It sounds like you're having the same problem that I was having. You need to change the permissions in the Ifeffit folder under program files. There is a good discussion of this that worked for me under Vol. 90, Issue 5 of the Ifeffit digest. This is a copy of the portion of that conversion that you need: "Right click on the IFEFFIT folder in Program Files and select Properties. Select the Security tab and then click the Edit button. For all of the group or user names listed make sure Allow is marked for all permissions (Checking Full Control should select all of the permissions in the list below it). Hit the Apply button and then the OK button. Then try opening Athena again and see if it successfully runs through the update process. " Todd Monson Sandia National Labs Nanomaterials Sciences P.O. Box 5800, MS 1415 Albuquerque, NM 87185-1415 (505) 845-2129 Fax: (505) 844-5470

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Help with cif file
by Kleper Rocha 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

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updating Athena in Win 7
by Monson, Todd 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Aranwela, It sounds like you're having the same problem that I was having. You need to change the permissions in the Ifeffit folder under program files. There is a good discussion of this that worked for me under Vol. 90, Issue 5 of the Ifeffit digest. This is a copy of the portion of that conversion that you need: "Right click on the IFEFFIT folder in Program Files and select Properties. Select the Security tab and then click the Edit button. For all of the group or user names listed make sure Allow is marked for all permissions (Checking Full Control should select all of the permissions in the list below it). Hit the Apply button and then the OK button. Then try opening Athena again and see if it successfully runs through the update process. " Todd Monson Sandia National Labs Nanomaterials Sciences P.O. Box 5800, MS 1415 Albuquerque, NM 87185-1415 (505) 845-2129 Fax: (505) 844-5470

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Help with cif file
by Kleper Rocha 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

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Re: [Ifeffit] PYTHON scripting on MacOS & XP (Joel Brugger)
by Brugger, Joel (SAM) 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi Matt, Thanks for the update. We had trouble getting the XP version to work. We're running Win XP under parallels on the Mac. Ifeffit (1.2.11), python (2.5) and the wrapper installed successfully. The ifeffit.py shell (in the python/scripts directory) does not recognise any python commands. And opening python in the ifeffit directory - it does not recognise ifeffit in the "import ifeffit" command. What are we doing wrong? Thanks, Joel & Barbara

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incorporating feff 8 into Artemis
by Jatinkumar Rana 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Dear All, Recently, I have decided to upgrade to Feff8.20. We have got Feff820a.exe file. I would like to know if there is any specific procedure to replace older Feff6 with this Feff820a.exe in artemis ? Thank you very much in advance !!! Best regards, Rana

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problem with the current Ifeffit installer for windows
by Bruce Ravel 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Hi all, Last week, I discovered a problem that might affect some of you. The current Windows installer package, ifeffit-1.2.11.exe, has a problem to do with how the ifeffit library was compiled. Fortunately, this problem was subsequently fixed. If you have installed the updates that have come out since ifeffit-1.2.11.exe was released, then you are fine. If, however, you have installed the installer *without* installing the updates, then your version of Artemis will be performing its fits slightly incorrectly. To find out if your installation is affected, start Artemis and select "About Ifeffit" from the Help menu. * If the version number for Ifeffit displayed in the echo area at the bottom of the Artemis window says "1.2.11" then you need to update. * If the version number says "1.2.11c" then you are fully updated and will not suffer from this problem. If you need to update but are, for some reason, unable to do so by the normal channel, there are instructions for updating by hand at this wiki page: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/IfeffitOnWindows/WinUpdater If you are using the incorrect version of the Ifeffit library, your fits will still be reasonable, but the best fit values of your parameters and all statistical parameters will be calculated differently from the normal version of Ifeffit. In my limited experience, best fit values tend not to different outside of their error bars, but they are different. The reason I noticed this problem is because here at Brookhaven, our internet access goes through a proxy server. If you are not configured to have the runner go through the proxy server, then it will be unable to find and download the updates. The solution I found for my colleague's computer was to set the http_proxy variable in C:\Program Files\Ifeffit\config\updater.ini to the address and port of the local proxy. I will work on making a new installer next week when I return from an experiment at the APS. For those affected by this long-standing but recently-discovered problem, I apologize. B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel(a)bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/

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Re: [Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 90, Issue 7
by hemantha aranwela 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Message: 4 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:47:50 -0400 From: Bruce Ravel <bravel(a)bnl.gov> To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit <ifeffit(a)millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov> Cc: "Beauchemin, Suzanne" <Suzanne.Beauchemin(a)nrcan-rncan.gc.ca> Subject: [Ifeffit] Fwd: Windows 7? Message-ID: <201008121247.50747.bravel(a)bnl.gov> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, This afternoon I was asked the following: > They are talking here to move us all from XP to Window 7... I checked on > your website and Athena is compatible with XP, Windows 2000, Windows > 95/98/ME but there is no mention of Window 7. Is it also adapted for > Window 7? Not having used Windows 7 myself, I don't have a lot to say. I know that everything worked OK with Vista, so I presume that the same is true of 7. Would anyone else like to comment to Suzanne on this issue? Thanks, B Hi Suzanne and Bruce, It works fine with Windows 7. But the updating is the problem. Runner.exe doesn't work properly. The window (runner) opens and download the files but does not install. Initially I thought it is due to the security settings and changed those. Still, no improvement. Thanks. Aranwela

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Haha
by Scott Calvin 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

Hi all, For a little comic relief, I just came across this graph: http://www.usablemarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/fed-rate-3.jpg I have never seen a graph unrelated to XAFS looks more like (noisy) XAFS data... --Scott Calvin Sarah Lawrence College

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