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kbutela	Is she running the WINE bottled version of DNAMaster on a Mac? This is an issue that is easily corrected in the X11 preferences. If she's running it on a Windows machine, I'd uninstall and re-install the program. I can't recall ever having this issue on a Windows machine, but I encounter it approximately 20% of the time when my students run it on their Macbooks.

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kbutela	We have been successfully using Wine to run DNA Master on the Mac for the past three years with only rare, very minor issues. The most important word of caution I have is to be careful in setting up the save preferences during initial preferences setup. The Wine program creates a "fake" windows C drive in order to properly run. The default DNA Master Archive save location is set to this "fake" C drive. I have my students create a DNA Master Archive on their Mac desktop or other readily accessible location on their Mac. When setting preferences, be sure to set the save location to this folder. Otherwise, it's nearly impossible to locate files when working on the Mac. Next, some students occasionally have difficulty cutting and pasting from DNA Master onto websites such as BLAST, HHpred, etc. This can be fixed in one of two ways: on the X11 preferences menu, make sure that you set Pasteboard settings to "Enable syncing" and all sub-options are selected. If this doesn't help, restart X11 and DNA Master. I find that sometimes the system gets overwhelmed when copying/pasting a lot of text and will stop responding to the copy paste functions. Anyone who has any specific questions about using DNA Master on the Mac can contact me for help. Although the installation seems like technology hoop jumping, once installed DNA Master will run smoothly for the majority of the time on the Mac. Edited 16 Sep, 2015 15:09

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We have been successfully using Wine to run DNA Master on the Mac for the past three years with only rare, very minor issues. The most important word of caution I have is to be careful in setting up the save preferences during initial preferences setup. The Wine program creates a "fake" windows C drive in order to properly run. The default DNA Master Archive save location is set to this "fake" C drive. I have my students create a DNA Master Archive on their Mac desktop or other readily accessible location on their Mac. When setting preferences, be sure to set the save location to this folder. Otherwise, it's nearly impossible to locate files when working on the Mac.

Next, some students occasionally have difficulty cutting and pasting from DNA Master onto websites such as BLAST, HHpred, etc. This can be fixed in one of two ways: on the X11 preferences menu, make sure that you set Pasteboard settings to "Enable syncing" and all sub-options are selected. If this doesn't help, restart X11 and DNA Master. I find that sometimes the system gets overwhelmed when copying/pasting a lot of text and will stop responding to the copy paste functions.

Anyone who has any specific questions about using DNA Master on the Mac can contact me for help. Although the installation seems like technology hoop jumping, once installed DNA Master will run smoothly for the majority of the time on the Mac.

Edited 16 Sep, 2015 15:09

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