I’m getting this error for certain micrographs, I’m not 100% sure but I believe it’s just ones that have very, very low counts due to a misaligned energy filter. The Patch CTF job fails so I can’t proceed to Curate Exposures in order to discard them. (These micrographs would be useless themselves, but the job is interrupted part way through).
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I don’t have a great recommendation for a temporary workaround. Have you checked already if a meaningful, preliminary curation is possible based on the motion correction results?
Motion-based curation almost definitely would have worked, but I ran Motioncor2 outside cryoSPARC this time. My workaround was to run the incomplete micrographs in CTFFIND4, and then curate those, throw away the bad micrographs (they’re almost blank, CTF fits >> 20 Å), and finally run the good ones through Patch CTF again.