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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Also in the scenario Daric described – you can feel comfortable deleting the *.pdl (log file) if it ever grows to large proportions like that.  I haven’t run into that issue
 in some time now, and it may be something specific to certain equest version/builds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Diglio via Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 14, 2017 7:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matthew Matthew <matthew@generateenergy.ca>; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] equest model loses all info<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">If you have a valid .inp file you can use that to open the project.  Note, there will be 2 .inp files listed in the directory, one will be 0 kb and one
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Launch eQuest, then choose select existing project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">When the window opens go to the bottom right where is says equest files (*.pd2) and use the drop down button to select the BDL input files (*.inp) and
 choose that.  The click on the valid .inp file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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87 Fairmont Avenue <br>
New Haven, CT 06513 <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Matthew Matthew via Equest-users <<a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:44 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] equest model loses all info</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 completely blank.  I'm not sure if this is relevant but just in case it is: There are a 73 files in the eQuest project folder.  One of them is 5GB in size.   If anyone has had this problem, and knows of how to get my model back, I'd really appreciate finding
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