Gautier, First off: USE THE MAILING LIST! That's what it's there for. Why ask two people for help when you can ask hundreds? As you say, you are not the first to see this behavior, but I am not among those who have witnessed this. It is, of course, hard for me to troubleshoot a problem that I have never seen and don't know how to reproduce. The only helpful thing that comes to mind is to ask if there are any non-lower-ascii characters in the path either to the folder where Ifeffit is installed or to the folder where your data lives. At some point in the last couple years, I thought I had fixed the issues with nono-lower-ascii characters -- but who knows? Perhaps you keep your data in folder called "données" or "データ". If so, try installing Ifeffit in a place with only lower-ascii characters and do the same with your data. No guarantees, but it is something to try. B ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Follow-up on your Athena issue Date: Wednesday 24 June 2009 From: Gautier Landrot To: n.thammajak@gmail.com Dear Dr. Thammajak: I noticed on the Ifeffit email list that you posted last year a message about a problem you had on Athena. I currently do have the same problem with my athena, the symptoms I have are the same than those described in your post: 1) Any single XAFS spectrum, which could be opened with Athena before the problem occurred, cannot be opened anymore. Only a message saying "you have not used any memory yet" appears at the bottom of the Athena Window. Oddly, old saved project files can still be opened. Then, when the data is opened from these old projects, new project cannot be saved (nothing happens when I try to save a project). Data files are not corrupted or have strange format, since the files could be opened before the problem occurred. Also I can open the data with Athena installed on other PCs without any problem. 2) The main Athena window won't close. The only way to close that window is to force quit the program. 3) I checked the command rpompt window, and ran Athena, as Bruce Ravel suggested in his reply. A message says "Ifeffit checked for updates recently. Your version of Ifeffit is up to date". That's it. No error message obviously... 4) I reinstalled both Athena and Windows XP, but the problem still occurs. I don't think anybody from the Ifeffit email list found the source of your issue. Is your Athena working now? If yes, have you figured what was the problem? Thanks a lot, Gautier ----------- Gautier Landrot graduate student University of Delaware Plant and Soil Sc. Dept. Environmental Soil Chemistry Group 152 Townsend Hall Newark, DE 19711 (302)831-1230 http://ag.udel.edu/SoilChem/landrot.html ------------------------------------------------------- -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@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/