Hi Smith, If this is really the problem Ian describes, you can try the Linux programs unix2dos and dos2unix the change the line endings. A potential source of the problem might be copying the file with certain (S)FTP clients: in 'text-mode' they change the line endings to your OS default to be user friendly.
Cheers, Robbie > -----Original Message----- > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Ian Tickle > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 14:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] how to recover my data > > Hi Smith > > > I sympathise with your plight - I have had to do similar things in the past > for > other people! I think your most fruitful course of action would be to talk to > the technician who recovered your data because only he knows what he > actually did to recover it. > > > From your description of your recovery of the PDB file it looks to me like a > line terminator issue, i.e. was the original file created in Linux, Windows or > Mac? This is relevant because the line terminators are different and it > sounds like the technician didn't simply copy the file, he changed the line > terminators. If he did the same with the MTZ file thinking it was a text file > the additional line terminators would corrupt the binary data making it > impossible to read with any of the CCP4 MTZ utilities. If you can understand > exactly what the technician did you may be able to reverse it and recover the > binary data. > > > Hope this helps! > > > Cheers > > > -- Ian > > > On 5 March 2015 at 05:36, Smith Lee <00000459ef8548d5-dmarc- > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > Recently my computer hardware has been broken and all the data > has been recovered to movable hardware by technician. However I find the > recovered PDB file and the MTZcould not be openned by Coot. Then I open > the revovered PDB file by WordPad, and from WordPad I copied it to > notepad and save it as pdb file. I find the Coot can open the notepad saved > pdb file, thus my pdb files can be succesfully recovered from the hardware. > > But will you please tell me how to have Coot open my mtz file? After > data recovery by the technicial, the data size of the mtz file did not > decrease, > thus I think there is a way to have it recovered. > > I have not noticed there were similar or identical posts as mine for > recovery data before in the CCP4 mail list. > > Thus I am looking forward to getting a reply from you on how to > recover my mtz file. > > > Smith > >
