Vesta GUI crashes with a vesta file generated by VESTA command interface on Windows 11

[Tong Yang]

Hi,

I tried to use the VESTA command interface to convert a POSCAR to the corresponding VESTA file on Windows. The test structure is monolayer MoS2. The command line below successfully generated the VESTA file without any error incurred. But when I drag the generated VESTA file into the VESTA GUI, the GUI just crashes. I would appreciate it if anyone can help to solve this issue.

The command line used to convert POSCAR to a vesta file:

'.\VESTA - Shortcut.lnk' -nogui -open POSCAR -save *.vesta POSCAR_win_vesta_command_interface.vesta

where '.\VESTA - Shortcut.lnk' is just a link to the VESTA.exe file.

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POSCAR:

Mo1 S2
1.0
3.196223 0.000000 0.000000
-1.598112 2.768010 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 23.129830
Mo S
1 2
direct
0.666667 0.333333 0.500000 Mo
0.333333 0.666667 0.432137 S
0.333333 0.666667 0.567863 S

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POSCAR_win_vesta_command_interface.vesta

#VESTA_FORMAT_VERSION 3.5.4

ATOMT
  0 0 0 0 0 0
SCENE
 1.000000  0.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  1.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  1.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  0.000000  1.000000
  0.000   0.000
  0.000
  1.000
HBOND 0 2

STYLE
DISPF 37753794
MODEL   0  1  0
SURFS   0  1  1
SECTS  32  1
FORMS   0  1
ATOMS   0  0  1
BONDS   1
POLYS   1
VECTS 1.000000
FORMP
  1  1.0   0   0   0
ATOMP
 24  24   0  50  2.0   0
BONDP
  1  16  0.250  2.000 127 127 127
POLYP
 204 1  1.000 180 180 180
ISURF
  0   0   0   0
TEX3P
  1  0.00000E+00  1.00000E+00
SECTP
  1  0.00000E+00  1.00000E+00  0.00000E+00  0.00000E+00  0.00000E+00  0.00000E+00
CONTR
 0.1 -1 1 1 10 -1 2 5
 2 1 2 1
   0   0   0
   0   0   0
   0   0   0
   0   0   0
HKLPP
 192 1  1.000 255   0 255
UCOLP
   0   1  1.000   0   0   0
COMPS 1
LABEL 1    12  1.000 0
PROJT 0  0.962
BKGRC
 255 255 255
DPTHQ 1 -0.5000  3.5000
LIGHT0 1
 1.000000  0.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  1.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  1.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  0.000000  1.000000
 0.000000  0.000000 20.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000 -1.000000
  26  26  26 255
 179 179 179 255
 255 255 255 255
LIGHT1
 1.000000  0.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  1.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  1.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  0.000000  1.000000
 0.000000  0.000000 20.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000 -1.000000
   0   0   0   0
   0   0   0   0
   0   0   0   0
LIGHT2
 1.000000  0.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  1.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  1.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  0.000000  1.000000
 0.000000  0.000000 20.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000 -1.000000
   0   0   0   0
   0   0   0   0
   0   0   0   0
LIGHT3
 1.000000  0.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  1.000000  0.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  1.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000  0.000000  1.000000
 0.000000  0.000000 20.000000  0.000000
 0.000000  0.000000 -1.000000
   0   0   0   0
   0   0   0   0
   0   0   0   0
SECCL 0

TEXCL 0

ATOMM
 204 204 204 255
  25.600
BONDM
 255 255 255 255
 128.000
POLYM
 255 255 255 255
 128.000
SURFM
   0   0   0 255
 128.000
FORMM
 255 255 255 255
 128.000
HKLPM
 255 255 255 255
 128.000
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Best regards,

Tong