Re-starting maps

Alloy Theoretic Automated Toolkit (ATAT)
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Dear all,
I did a maps calculation for the Ni-rich part of the NiAl phase diagram using VASP.
After a few days, I get 21 calculated structures and maps tells me that it includes all structures up to 11 atoms. The ECIs look reasonable and I can calculate a plausible phase diagram from this. So I stopped pollmach and maps.

To experiment a bit, I copied all results to a new directory. When I start maps -d again in this directory, I get the same eci’s as before, but the maps.log suddenly says

I have no idea what is going on here.

Any help is welcome,
Martin.

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Try the -g=natom option in maps to extend ground state search.
For example, "maps -g=8" will extend ground state search up to structures having at least 8 atoms.

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Thanks.