Update FAQ authored by Leonie Plaga's avatar Leonie Plaga
* **When using pypsa-eur, I get the error "symbolic privilege not held".**
* You must run the shell you are using as administrator.
# General
* **Snakemake commands do not work on my windows computer.**
* If you are using windows, you have to add the option --keep-target-files for snakemake.
* **I have recently downloaded backbone, but it does not work with the Input files from the backbone Wiki**
* The example data is prepared for the dev-branch of backbone. How to download it, you find here: https://gitlab.vtt.fi/backbone/backbone/-/wikis/Getting-started/Quick-Start
* **I want to calculate something new with snakemake, but it tells me "nothing to be done".**
* Snakemake does not recalculate files, which are already there. You must delete the file, which has the name of your desired output.
# Backbone
* **I have recently downloaded backbone, but it does not work with the Input files from the backbone Wiki**
* The example data is prepared for the dev-branch of backbone. How to download it, you find here: https://gitlab.vtt.fi/backbone/backbone/-/wikis/Getting-started/Quick-Start
# Pypsa-eur
* **When using pypsa-eur, I get the error "symbolic privilege not held".**
* You must run the shell you are using as administrator.
* **I changed the pypsa-eur config.json to new countries/timespan etc. but my output does not change.**
* In pypsa-eur, there are several files, which must be changed, when changing the config. To make sure, everything is updated to your change, delete all files in networks, resources and results.
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