<div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the tip! I will try that. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jing</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:19 PM R V Culham <<a href="mailto:rvculham@gmail.com">rvculham@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hello Jing,<div><br></div><div>The suggested solution by Nicholas Caton is a great one.  I have found it best to use Notepad++ as my preferred text editor.  I cannot think of an energy model that I have not checked or modified the code in a text editor, whether it is an eQuest model or an EnergyPlus model.</div><div><br></div><div>I would check to see if those missing elements are still in the inp file using a search tool.  Just accidentally hitting the keyboard could cause a error as simple as a missing quotation or more often a missing code line ending.  Also, I generally follow the order of inputs in the sample inp files.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let us know if this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Ralph Culham P. Eng.</div><div>Energy Consultant</div><div>H D Culham & Associates</div><div>Muskoka Ontario Canada</div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-culham-b026a01/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-culham-b026a01/</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Nicholas Caton via Equest-users <span><<a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I would open the BDL file generated when you opened that eQuest file, and use ctrl+f
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> “error” to identify the first error occurring from the top-down.  It may be obvious from there what’s missing or incorrectly/inadvertently
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Oftentimes fixing one accidental INP error (like a missing .. or name) will fix all those errors following.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jing Hong via Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:49 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] eQuest loses information<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="m_1513291278122860798h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was running my model several times and no error. However, after I open the .inp file with Notepad, the model shows a lot of errors of missing information. The HVAC system, envelop inputs and schedules are missing. Have this happened to
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