Bruce, thanks for the comprehensive response to my questions.
You can edit the titles on the data page to put your own information in the header written to the data chi(x) files. But I see your point and will include that in the next release.
Concerning Athena I see how to work around the problems. Putting parameter-information in the project title is indeed a help. But usually the parameters will change often so an automated writing to the exported files would be better. I would therefore appreciate this function in a future release. I will now concentrate on Artemis. I did again a new full installation of Ifeffit and set up the example files again, carefully looking at the error messages. (BTW: Initially the FEFF-executable is set to feff6, it is necessary to switch to feff6l by hand).
1. Did you do anything to the folders or files under C:\Program Files\Ifeffit\horae\stash\artemis.project.0\ while Artemis was still running?
I did never edit any file in the \horae\ .. folders but before deleting the old installation I had a look there and found around 20 folders called "artemis.project.0", "artemis.project.1" etc. After the new installation the "artemis.project.0" was removed each time not cluttering up the folder. Could there be a relation to the errors?
The basic flowchart for an Artemis 0.7 project is this: (1) import data, (2) import or create atoms data, (3) run atoms, (4) check the feff.inp data and run feff, (5) set up your fitting model, (6) hit the big green button.
I set up the project file in the order you described: and indeed everything works normal ! I therefore tried to reverse the order: first load in a feff-calculation, play with it and afterward load a data-file. The project file went corrupt again (error messages in ARTEMIS.TRAP). I tried it a few times in the "wrong order", some times it went OK. After a while I figured out what the problem might be: When I load the data file (for the first time) via the dialog Data | Change Data File problems will occur (which I usually did despite the fact the the dialog was built to CHANGE an existing data file - I was just confused about the variety of ways to load in a data file). When I first load in the data file via File | Open data file or project it will be OK. Does that make sense? I am sorry but the errors are not always reproducible and I did my best to figure out a possible scheme. I included a corrupted and a good file but they seemed pretty equal. When I load in the corrupted file a second time everything will be okay, probably only the copy in the stash-folder gets corrupt? I summarize: when I follow the correct order I could not find any errors so far. All the different error messages I had might be related to a wrong loading procedure.
(1) Completely delete the feff calculation from the project using the discard option in the Feff menu and then start over again
Do you think it is risky to delete the FEFF-calculation in the Zip-file manually? HTH, Gerrit