Hello Sam, I am a graduate student at Chungbuk University in Korea.  I am trying to use Sixpack for data analysis, but I am unable to find the manual on the Samware website, which is preventing me from using it properly.  On the homepage, Sixpack's manual is  under construction.  Could you please send me the manual or some information like a document about Sixpack? Thank you. SeungJin Park park08187637@gmail.com

Hello, I'm noticing that as I process some XAS data, some mu files (which I've prepared by averaging scans in SamView and then correcting in the background removal module) can't be plotted correctly when they are opened in the PCA module. When multiple files are prepared identically, some are affected and others are not. Both the .mu and .xdi mu files are affected. The files contain full spectra and I can't see any obvious problems in the files. Repeating the processing steps with the same raw data seems to result in an identical mu file that can't be plotted. I get the same problem with versions 1.4 and 1.5.6. I haven't tried another computer yet but I'm having the problem on the BL4-1 processing computer. I made sure there are no hyphens in my file names. I'm attaching example files and an image of the failed plotting. Thanks for any ideas! Eric E.

I recently did a fresh install of Anaconda3 and SMAK on a M1 Mac. While my previous installation of Anaconda and SMAK proceeded exactly as described on the installation webpage, this time I came across some hurdles. 1. While I believe that I had installed my previous Anaconda3 for all users, the "/opt/anaconda3" direcoty was in my "User/opt/anaconda3" directory as described in the installation instructions on sams-xrays. Yet this new installation installed in "/opt/anaconda3". i.e. directly on the Macintosh HD, not in the user directory. I may be mistaken about my previous install, but it is worth noting that maybe something changed with the installation defaults. Anyway, this meant that my shortcut no longer worked and I had to edit for the new directory. 2. The command for creating the smakenv "conda create -n smakenv python==3.10" created the environment in the "osx-arm64" architecture. i.e. the Apple Silicon architecture. The previous architecture is "osx-64". Not a problem unless you want to install the additional segmentation and image registration modules. When running the "conda install lap -c conda-forge" I got an error: "Packages Not Found Error: The following packages are not available from current channels: -lap ......" This is because this "lap" package does not have a version that works for osx-arm64. Solution: When you create the smakenv, use "conda create --platform osx-64 -n smakenv python==3.10". This creates the smakenv in the architecture that allows you to install the lap package.