mss_settings.json cannot be loaded in mss tool at Windows 7 (64bit)

[Vladyslav Nenakhov]

Dear mss developer,

my name is Vlad and i am a PhD student of Prof. Burrows (IUP-University of Bremen) and a member of organisation team of the EMeRGe campaign (take place in summer 2017 and spring 2018).

Issue: If i load a mss_setting.json file in mss on Windows 7 (64bit) from my Desktop, than no changes are applied in mss.

Details: With the help of the guide on http://mss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#settings-file i created a new mss_setting_Vlad.json (see attachment) with new locations. If load (from my Desktop) on Windows 7 (64bit) in mss via "File->Load Confoguration" my "mss_setting_Vlad.json" and go to "Table View", than the "Location" list is not updated according to my file. A restart of mss dont help also to solve this problem. I tried to load a "mss_setting.json" file from Andreas Hilboll and had the same problem as with my file. I know from Andreas that he made changes in his "mss_setting.json" on linux and the changes were directly updated in mss.

It would be great if someone could help me with this issue, because we (IUP) have to provide a "mss_setting.json" to our Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) in the next weeks.

Best regards Vlad

Edit: i use mss 1.3.1.

[Joern Ungermann]

Thanks for providing this bug report. This seems like a duplicate of issue #127 that was resolved in 1.3.2. Could you please update your MSS installation to 1.3.2 and check if the issue remains?

[Vladyslav Nenakhov]

Thanks for the very fast reply!

a) If i try to update my mss via "conda update" from conda-forge than the version 1.3.1 is the latest version. b) If i try to install mss via "conda install mss=1.3.2" than i get the error "PackageNotFoundError": Package missing in current win-64 channels.

Are there other sources for updating mss to 1.3.2?

[Reimar Bauer]

have you set the conda-forge channel?

$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
$ conda config --add channels defaults

you also could try

conda install -c conda-forge mss

a 1.3.2 win64 package is on our channel

https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/mss

[Vladyslav Nenakhov]

Oh great! Now i could update mss to 1.3.2 and load the mss_setting.json from Andreas. Thanks a lot!

[Reimar Bauer]

issue is fixed in newer version