<div dir="ltr"><div>Try to replace outdir='./out/' with with outdir='out'. Opening files in Windows is by far the most serious source of trouble.</div><div><br></div><div>Paolo<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 3:07 AM precious Ekwere <<a href="mailto:preciousekwere01@gmail.com">preciousekwere01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thank you for your email.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes I use windows 10</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And my QE is v 6.4.1</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you</div><div dir="auto">Precious</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 1:45 PM Paolo Giannozzi <<a href="mailto:p.giannozzi@gmail.com" target="_blank">p.giannozzi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Are you by any chance running on Windows? which QE version?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Paolo<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:59 AM precious Ekwere <<a href="mailto:preciousekwere01@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">preciousekwere01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Good day all,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I am very new to computational chemistry and have just
downloaded  QE I tried to run an SCI
calculation with the attached input script but keep getting the error message</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</span></p>     Error in routine seqopn (99):<br>     error opening ./out/\aiida.save\paw.txt<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I also tried to run relax following a youtube video, and I am
getting this error message.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">     Error in routine
seqopn (99):</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">     error opening
./out/\aiida.save\paw.txt</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I do not have an idea how to resolve this, and will
appreciate your help.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Regards,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Precious Ekwere</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div>
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Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (<a href="http://www.max-centre.eu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.max-centre.eu</a>)<br>
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