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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Hopefully you were using detailed edit mode.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Look in the folder and you should see a file titled “SIDCO - Baseline Design.inp”. This should have your pre-run input data. Delete the blank “SIDCO.inp “ file and then copy, rename “SIDCO - Baseline Design.inp” to SIDCO.inp. As for the bdl file see if you can start up an new project use the correct weather data file and title it the same as before “SIDCO”. Don’t worry about any other inputs other than the title and weather data. All other input just ignore. Copy the new bdl file over to the project directory and open. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Also in the future do not save your file after and invalid argument error, this is what is creating this issue. 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If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies and notify us immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#008040'>ü</span><span style='color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#008040'>Please consider the environment before printing this email.</span><span style='color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Javed Iqbal<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> ramesh buddhi<br><b>Cc:</b> eQuest Users<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Invalid Argument Error<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333399'>Dear Ramesh,</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333399'>There is nothing in PD and INP files and seems impossible to extract your model.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333399'>Thanks!</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:38 PM, ramesh buddhi <<a href="mailto:ramesh@greenevolution.in" target="_blank">ramesh@greenevolution.in</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Dear Folks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I had modeled an office building after completing the modelling when I clicked on the finish button I got an error message saying invalid argument and file got closed. When again opened the file the modelling i had done got lost how do i retrieve it can anyone help to retrieve it back, i had attached the eQUEST files for your reference.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Ramesh BR <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#00BF60'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> New No.110 / Survey No. 151/1, Mahatma Gandhi Road <br> Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600041 INDIA<br> Web: <a href="http://www.greenevolution.in" target="_blank">www.greenevolution.in</a><br> Land: +91-44-4201-8369<br> Cell : +91-99406-19915</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Equest-users mailing list<br><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org" target="_blank">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org</a><br>To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a href="mailto:EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";background:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333399;background:white'>Javed Iqbal, LEED AP, CEA</span><span style='color:#333399;background:#3333FF'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333399;background:white'>Energy Analyst </span><span style='color:#333399;background:#3333FF'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>