<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Or are you running under Windows Vista? THAT was MY nemesis. All went away with Windows 7.</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Nick Caton <ncaton@smithboucher.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Brian Fountain <bfountain@greensim.com>; "McArdle, Christopher" <cmcardle@ewingcole.com>; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 7, 2011 10:03 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Equest-users] file format error! is all my work
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--></style><div class="yiv876102726WordSection1"><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It’s probably worth the question and it may be something else – sorry if it seems silly:</span></div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Did you make the model in 3.64 and now you’re trying to open it in 3.63 or a different version? </span></div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">~Nick</span></div><div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><img id="yiv876102726_x0000_i1027" src="cid:1.874862858@web126111.mail.ne1.yahoo.com" alt="cid:489575314@22072009-0ABB" width="119" height="37"></span><b><span style="font-family:
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medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: windowtext;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: windowtext;"> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Fountain<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:30 AM<br><b>To:</b> McArdle, Christopher; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] file format error! is all my work lost?</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal">Others may have a better solution in dealing with the .pd2 file. However, one option is to open a blank eQUEST file (go new file from wizard ->
SD wizard and then click the red x on the 1st screen of the wizard to start blank). Now File Import the project .inp file (the one with out " - baseline" ... please make a copy first!). <br><br>You should be able to recover everything you had in the detailed interface except the project location which you will need to redefine. Your wizard data is lost (as that was in the .pd2) but all the detailed interface data is stored in the .inp file. <br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Brian<br><br>On 9/7/2011 11:39 AM, McArdle, Christopher wrote: </div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: "sans-serif";">I have setting up this model for a few days and it crashed on me. Every time I try to open the file I getting the following error message.</span></div><div class="yiv876102726MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: "sans-serif";"> </span></div><div
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