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["Thomas, Sebastian" <sthomas AT uni-mainz.de>]

Dear OPALers,

I have some problems with the output of OPAL, specifically the monitors. I have three monitors in my beam line and try to evaluate their ASCII Output with a Python Script of my own. The thing is, I realised that OPAL sometime just "appends" the output file instead of completely overriding it. Of course, that leads to corrupted data. It happened after I changed the amount of macroparticles. Is there a way to make sure that OPAL deletes or overrides all old data in its folders?

I did not found a documentation regarding how to handle the "Visualize Elements"  part in the data output after a successful run in OPAL. Did I overlook it or is there none?

I will have to implement an Elegant Lattice in OPAL. Since I want to be smart in what I do, I thought I ask you, whether someone already has done a conversion like that and could provide me with some documentation, insights and/or tools. I will gladly do the same once I finished the conversion and the lattice proofed to be stable.

Cheers

Sebastian Thomas

phd student at MESA in Mainz