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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2021 - 10:12:50 CST

Carlos,
  I'm wondering if you have the environment variable TMPDIR set,
if so, is it set to "C:"?

Best,
  John

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 10:56:07AM -0500, Carlos Simmerling wrote:
> hi all,
> I'm trying to use viewmaster with VMD for WIN64, version 1.9.4a51.
> when I click on "create new" I get this error message in the console.
> How do I set the working directory for viewmaster? It keeps trying to
> write to c:.
> I tried changing the location in the viewmaster menus "save as" and "set
> session file" and it didn't seem to help.
> thanks
> carlos
> vmd > pwd
> E:/carlos/Desktop
> vmd > Info) Rendering current scene to 'c:viewmaster.16648.ppm' ...
> ERROR) Could not open file c:viewmaster.16648.ppm in current directory for
> writing!
> Info) Rendering complete. 

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