[gmx-users] append does not work for me

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/21/15 10:41 AM, Michael Brunsteiner wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I just tried to continue a simulation, after having extended the total time using
>
> gmx convert-tpr -s original-xxx.tpr -o xxx.tpr -until 400000
> mdrun -nt 4 -deffnm xxx -cpi xxx.cpt
>
> xxx.cpt, xxx.log, and xxx.trr are present  in the working directory and are
> the original output files, i.e., they were NOT modified
>
> but instead of appending the new data gmx makes backups of theoriginal files (i.e. renames xxx.* to #xxx.*.1#) and writes the data into new files xxx.*
> this happens both with without the -append option to mdrun ...
> the original files were produced with gmx 5.0.1 and for the extensioni tried to use gmx 5.0.4 ... can this be the problem? if so, is there a work around?
> other than using trjcat, which is tedious as here i am working with HUGE files...

Did you enable large file support when you compiled GROMACS?  Or maybe the file 
size is an OS limit?

-Justin

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