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container creation failed

Dear developers of HT-colabfold,

I am pleased to be able to use your creative software, but during usage, we found that Apptainer was unable to correctly invoke it (FATAL: container creation failed: mount hook function failure: mount /groups->/groups error: while mounting /groups: mount source /groups doesn't exist), leading to an inability to process the input files and ultimately resulting in an error indicating that the sequence file could not be found (no sequences to predict found - exiting).

Further investigation revealed that this might be caused by incorrect folder names in the mounted directories under ht-colabfold/script-files/tools. The lines -B /groups, -B /scratch, and -B /scratch-cbe seem to reflect personal-style folder mounts. When I changed them to include the folders containing my input files (e.g., -B /home:/home), the issue was resolved.

I would like to know whether these preset mounted folders are necessary for program execution, and whether my modification might have any adverse effects?

LIU HANG