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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you all for the quick reply!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As always, this is proving to be an exceedingly useful list-serve.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#006E78'>Jeff Ross-Bain, PE, L</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#006E78'>EED Fellow</span></b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#535053'><br>Principal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#535053'>404-220-8940 Office<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#535053'>404-220-8955 Direct<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#006E78'><a href="http://www.rbgb.com/">www.rbgb.com</a></span></b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#535053'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#006E78'>Build Green. Save Time.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Brian Fountain [mailto:bfountain@greensim.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 04, 2015 6:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org; jeff@rbgb.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] HUGE PDL file<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>You can just delete the .pdl file. I have seen this as well, a .pdl grows "crazy-large" and the model behaves erratically. Simply deleting the file -- which is a log of changes to the model which candidly, I have not used, has got my files working again.<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 9/4/2015 4:54 PM, Julien Marrec wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Delete everything but the inp and pd2.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've got no explanation as to why it's huge, but I've been doing that successfully <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Envoyé de mon iPhone<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Le 4 sept. 2015 à 22:52, "Jeff Ross-Bain" <<a href="mailto:jeff@rbgb.com">jeff@rbgb.com</a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Equest world,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am having a tough time opening and accessing a relatively small Equest 3,65 model (it worked a short time ago).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Looking at the files, I notice that the *.PDL file is over 2.6 GB in size…usually these are 100-800 kb!! </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Any idea what could be the problem?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Jeff Ross-Bain, PE, LEED Fellow</span></b><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><br>Principal</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>404-220-8940 Office</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>404-220-8955 Direct</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><a href="http://www.rbgb.com">www.rbgb.com</a></span></b><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><br><br>Build Green. Save Time.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Equest-users mailing list<br><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org">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></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Equest-users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>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></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>