MVIEW screens full folder

Hi,

I have a folder with around 800 files and some million structures

as packed SMILES (*.SMI.ZIP). Unfortunately MVIEW 5.2.2 scans through the whole folder

screening them, which takes a while, unfortunately it stops inbetween,

and unfortunately the file block is only one byte large, resulting in millions

of read operations. During that process its also eating quite a lot of memory,

some hundred megs. {edit TK} Is there a way to shut it off? Turning OFF the preview did

not help. What is that good for? For (intelligent) detection of structure files?

Could that done with file extensions? Or on explicit request? Even if I set a specific

file type it will still read the whole folder, file for file, with hundreds of MBytes.

 

Instead it could retrieve all files, and query for the file size or read the first and last

block bytes, instead of reading the whole file?

 

Thank you

Tobias

 

We will check it.

Until then, I can suggest the following:

1. Increase the memory limit of the MarvinView application: use the -Xmx parameter in the command line (e.g.: mview -Xmx300m) or modify the HEAP_SIZE in the batch file (that defines the default value of the previous paramater by Marvin/JChem applications (in JChem package).

2. Launch MarvinView from command line and give the required structure file by startup:
mview hugesdfile.sdf