[Ifeffit] Mac intel OSX - Feff6 whereabouts

[Jeff Terry]

Hi Katy,

I ran into this problem about two weeks ago. I have no idea why, it  
had worked fine for a few months before that. Paul's suggestion  
worked for me.

Jeff

On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:09 PM, paul fons wrote:

>   I can't say I have had this problem with either of my Intel Macs,  
> but I do know a solution that seems to have worked for others...  
> that is to delete the preferences file for artemis which is located  
> in your home directory under ".horae" and is named "artemisrc".   
> Note that the "." (dot) in the directory name.  This causes the  
> finder and the default unix file listing "ls" command to not output  
> the name as such preference files are considered "noise".  To  
> delete the preference file you should run the command "rm ~/.horae/ 
> artemisrc".  This hopefully will help things...
> 				Paul
> On Jul 16, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Katy Evans wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Apologies if this question has a very simple answer but I can't  
>> work it out.  I installed the iXAFS package onto my new Mac (OSX  
>> 10.4.8) and almost everything works very well and it is very  
>> pleasant to use so thankyou.
>>
>> BUT Feff6 won't run.
>>
>> I can fit to existing Feff calculations but I can't make new ones,  
>> from .inp files that used to work on my other computer, or from  
>> quick first shell calculations.
>>
>> The message from Artemis starts 'This error is probably due to  
>> having Artemis configured incorrectly and so it does not know how  
>> to run Feff on your computer...' and goes on to say that I should  
>> check the value of the Feff executable in Preferences, and set it  
>> to Feff6.  So I checked it and it was indeed Feff6.
>>
>> I looked for Feff6 on my computer and could only find a Feff6.atp  
>> file in the Perl directory (/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread- 
>> multi-2level/Xray/atp) - should there be anything else?  I tried  
>> typing this address into the box for the Feff executable option  
>> but this didn't help.
>>
>> I tried to remove everything and reinstall from the disk image but  
>> I am not sure if that was successful since I still only got the  
>> option to 'upgrade'  when I clicked on the installer package.   
>> Where are all the things I need to remove if I want to get rid of  
>> the old version?
>>
>> Thankyou, Katy
>>
>>
>> Katy Evans					     	Dept. App. Geol.
>> k.evans at curtin.edu.au			Curtin University
>> Tel:  0061 8 9266 4682			Bentley
>> Fax: 0061 8 9266 3153 			GPO Box U 1987, WA6845
>>
>>
>>
>>
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