[Ifeffit] save Artemis project and cannot find Path List information when reopen

[huyanyun at physics.utoronto.ca]

Hi Bruce,

Thank you for your help. Yes, it happens consistently to me, but  
sometimes I did the same thing and it won't happen. So I was confused.

Best,
Yanyun
Quoting Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov>:

> On 08/28/2014 07:51 PM, huyanyun at physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
>> I encountered a serious problem with saving an Artermis project on my
>> windows 8 64bit desktop. When I am ready to finish my fitting work, I
>> click to save the log file, and go to main window to choose -File-'save
>> project as...', and then close Artemis. But when I reopen this saved
>> project, the Path Page lost all information for each path, and the
>> 'Include path' button has been surprisingly unchecked for all path. The
>> GDS page have all information there. This happened to me several times,
>> but it seems sometime the PathPage data is saved and sometime is not,
>> although I think I was doing the exact something.
>>
>> I attached one of my artemis project file and the most recent log file I
>> saved before I close the program. Can anyone have a look and tell me
>> what I did wrong? As my work is proceeding, this would be a very serious
>> problem if I cannot save my 'hardwork'.
>
> Yanyun,
>
> I know what is causing the behavior your are observing, but I do not
> know how you got to this point.  In short, the problem with your
> project file is that the mechanism that Artemis uses to path pages to
> paths from the feff caluclation has become completely unhinged.  Even
> though each path is defined in a reasonable way (in the sense of
> having sensible math expressions for all the path parameters), every
> path fails to point correctly to the feff calculation.
>
> I was able to reproduce this problem by re-running the Feff
> calculation then immediately saving the project file.  Is this what
> happened?
>
> This is a rather obvious avenue for failure.  It's suprising to me
> that I've never thought of this before and that no one has ever before
> complained about that.
>
> I think I may be able to recover your project file -- I'll take a look
> and let you know.
> B
>
>
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