Hello again, Thanks for the advice ! If there is any way to avoid having to restart a large part of my simulation, I would prefer it. I just realised that in my last e-mail I didn't actually tell you what error message I got - here it is: "Floating exception (core dumped)" I get this error for all programs which I run on my XTC file. Any ideas what the problem could be or whether there are other ways of fixing this without having to restart it ? Thanks for your help ! Best wishes, Chris