# Catchall on mac **URL:** \ **Category:** Commands in mothur\ **Created:** [February 10, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/catchall-on-mac/469 "2011-02-10T11:42:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bcrump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bcrump](https://forum.mothur.org/u/bcrump)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/catchall-on-mac/469/1 "2011-02-10T11:42:35Z")
I’m having trouble running the catchall command on my MacBook Pro. I put the catchall executable (CatchAllcmdL.exe) in the same folder as the mothur executable (v.1.16.0), made it executable with chmod, and installed Mono for mac intel from this website ([http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html](http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html)). The program runs fine on its own outside mothur, but then I have to create the proper input file format for all my samples. When I run catchall in mothur on a shared file I get this output: mothur \> catchall(shared=LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.shared.txt) Processing group 1\_winter\_epi 0.03 Cannot open assembly ‘/CatchAllcmdL.exe’: No such file or directory. [ERROR]: the catchall program did not run properly. Please check to make sure it is located in the same folder as your mothur executable. This happens even if I run mothur in the same folder as the mothur and catchall executables. Do you know what is going on? Byron ---
**Author:** ![westcott](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/westcott/32/18_2.png) [@westcott](https://forum.mothur.org/u/westcott)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/catchall-on-mac/469/2 "2011-02-11T15:59:53Z")
Mothur finds the catchall executable location using the argv variable for mothur. It looks like you might have mothur’s location defined in your PATH variable. Mothur is supposed to be able to parse out the executable location from the PATH environment variable, but it appears that is not working properly. Could you try running mothur with a complete path so I can tell if that is the problem you are having? Something like, SarahsWork$ ./debug/mothur “#catchall(shared=abrecovery.fn.shared, label=0.03);” ---
**Author:** ![bcrump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bcrump](https://forum.mothur.org/u/bcrump)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/catchall-on-mac/469/3 "2011-02-12T03:46:01Z")
I do have mothur’s location in my “.profile” file with this line: export PATH=/Applications:$PATH I used this command: $ /Applications/mothur “#catchall(shared=LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.no\_semicolon.shared.txt);” My output was this: mothur \> catchall(shared=LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.no\_semicolon.shared.txt) Processing group LTR\_ARC\_Bv6\_ARC\_1\_1B 0.03 CatchAll Version 2.0 input File: LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.no\_semicolon.shared.LTR\_ARC\_Bv6\_ARC\_1\_1B.0.03.csv output path: LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.no\_semicolon.shared.LTR\_ARC\_Bv6\_ARC\_1\_1B.0.03.csv/ Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file “LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.no\_semicolon.shared.LTR\_ARC\_Bv6\_ARC\_1\_1B.0.03.csv/” File name: ‘LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.no\_semicolon.shared.LTR\_ARC\_Bv6\_ARC\_1\_1B.0.03.csv/’ at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectoriesInternal (System.String path) [0x00000] in :0 at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory (System.String path) [0x00000] in :0 at MapleToCSharp.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in :0 [ERROR]: the catchall program did not run properly. Please check to make sure it is located in the same folder as your mothur executable. mothur \> quit() ---
**Author:** ![westcott](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/westcott/32/18_2.png) [@westcott](https://forum.mothur.org/u/westcott)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/catchall-on-mac/469/4 "2011-02-14T13:21:25Z")
Okay, so mothur is finding the catchall executable. But I suspect when it creates the input files for catchall it is putting them in the same place as the shared file, but not sending catchall the complete file name. Can you check to see if the LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.no\_semicolon.shared.LTR\_ARC\_Bv6\_ARC\_1\_1B.0.03.csv file is being created and put in the same location as the shared file? If so, you should be able to force mothur to send the complete file name by changing your command to $ /Applications/mothur “#catchall(shared=./LTR\_ARC\_Bv6.Bacteria.slp.otus.03.transpose.no\_semicolon.shared.txt);” Let me know if that works for you. ---
**Author:** ![JBarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@JBarin](https://forum.mothur.org/u/JBarin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/catchall-on-mac/469/5 "2013-09-08T01:43:42Z")
Hey - hate to necropost this thread, but I’m essentially having this problem with the Catchall v3.1 that I loaded up with the most recent MacOS 10.8 GUI - which I’ve been running from command line anyways. I’ve got Mono, that seems to be running Catchall just fine. But I’m just not seeing a .csv file being created, as a Catchall input? Here’s what I see: mothur \> catchall() Using Comm2.trim.contigs.good.unique.good.filter.unique.precluster.pick.pick.an.unique\_list.shared as input file for the shared parameter. Processing group 8104\_d20 unique CatchAll Version 3.1 input File: /Users/jobertbarin/mothurGUI/mothur/Comm2.trim.contigs.good.unique.good.filter.unique.precluster.pick.pick.an.unique\_list.8104\_d20.unique.csv output path: /Users/jobertbarin/mothurGUI/mothur// Input data file must have more than one row End of Analysis [ERROR]: the catchall program did not run properly. Please check to make sure it is located in the same folder as your mothur executable. Any ideas? What am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![westcott](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/westcott/32/18_2.png) [@westcott](https://forum.mothur.org/u/westcott)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/catchall-on-mac/469/6 "2013-09-09T12:14:43Z")
Can you try it with label=0.03? I think the catchall error is related to the unique distance. ---
**Author:** ![JBarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@JBarin](https://forum.mothur.org/u/JBarin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/catchall-on-mac/469/7 "2013-09-30T20:09:10Z")
> [@westcott](#): > > Can you try it with label=0.03? I think the catchall error is related to the unique distance. Finally got around to this - system’s been super-hung up trying to run metastats (unsuccessfully, will work on that in the 'ppropriate thread). Getting the same error, with the 0.03 label. Although it’s now occurring to me that the problems I had been having clustering OTUs are coming back to haunt me - I expect they’ve oversplit into uniques, with no 0.03 labels. So I’m going back to wrestling with that fun stuff.