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This fix is not needed when opening eQUEST in DOE-2.3 mode, but needs to be applied after any open in DOE-2.2 mode even when that open was just to switch to DOE-2.3 mode.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b>Christina LaPerle (she/her)</b> PE, BEMP, </span><font color="#666666" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">CPHC</span></font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt;vertical-align:super">®</span><font color="#666666" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">, </span></font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">CEM, CBCP</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Principal Engineer<br>________________<br></span><img src="cid:286012b78f6945a_0.1" alt="image.png"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Phone </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#1155cc">860.266.6220</font> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;text-align:justify">We are always looking for motivated professionals to join our team. See our career options </span><a href="https://karpmanconsulting.net/available-careers" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;text-align:justify">!</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:red">PTO Alert: </span></i><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:red"> Out after 12/19/2025 and back 1/2/2025</span></i><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;text-align:justify"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM Christina LaPerle <<a href="mailto:christina@karpmanconsulting.net">christina@karpmanconsulting.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Temporary solution for DOE-2.2 per communication with Jeff (it works I tried it).</div><div><br></div><div>In the equest.ini, in the [Registration} section at the bottom, if you set<br>Status=0<br>before stating eQUEST, when DOE-2.2 is selected for the simulation engine (not an issue with DOE-2.3 selected), should cause a registration dialog with a valid registration number to be displayed instead, then you should be able to click OK and it should startup normally. Some suggested using the original equest.ini before starting it the first time and setting the file to be read only; but that prevents saving other information about the last use rather than having the startup just ignore previous date information.<br> <br>Applies eQUEST.ini located in the C:\Users\"your user name"\Documents\eQUEST 3-65-7175 Data\<br> <br>You can keep it open in Notepad and just reset the status to 0 each time before re-opening eQUEST. </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><b>Christina LaPerle (she/her)</b> PE, BEMP, </span><font color="#666666" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">CPHC</span></font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt;vertical-align:super">®</span><font color="#666666" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">, </span></font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">CEM, CBCP</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Principal Engineer<br>________________<br></span><img src="cid:286012b78f6945a_0.1" alt="image.png"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Phone </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#1155cc">860.266.6220</font> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;text-align:justify">We are always looking for motivated professionals to join our team. See our career options </span><a href="https://karpmanconsulting.net/available-careers" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;text-align:justify">!</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:red">PTO Alert: </span></i><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:red"> Out after 12/19/2025 and back 1/2/2025</span></i><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;text-align:justify"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM Daric Adair <<a href="mailto:Daric.Adair@hendersonengineers.com" target="_blank">Daric.Adair@hendersonengineers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 17, 2025 2:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christina LaPerle <<a href="mailto:christina@karpmanconsulting.net" target="_blank">christina@karpmanconsulting.net</a>>; Rahil Shah <<a href="mailto:rahil@nyu.edu" target="_blank">rahil@nyu.edu</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christina LaPerle via Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 17, 2025 1:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rahil Shah <<a href="mailto:rahil@nyu.edu" target="_blank">rahil@nyu.edu</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> December 17, 2025 12:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Brian Fountain <<a href="mailto:Brian.Fountain@sa-footprint.com" target="_blank">Brian.Fountain@sa-footprint.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jeff Ross-Bain <<a href="mailto:jeff@rbgb.com" target="_blank">jeff@rbgb.com</a>>; Melissa Crowe <<a href="mailto:melissa.crowe@oakwellteam.com" target="_blank">melissa.crowe@oakwellteam.com</a>>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I am also seeing the issue.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">It seems to be something being written to eQUEST.ini. I can get around it by having a “clean” copy of eQUEST.ini (with a date before today’s) and replacing eQUEST.ini
with the clean version before opening eQUEST each time. (which is still a pain but better than reinstalling)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeff Ross-Bain via Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> December 17, 2025 11:44 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Same here, including the un/install actions. The note appeared just this morning!<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I also opened it once, but not again!<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas would be great!<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Crowe via Equest-users<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>I am having issues with eQuest I haven’t seen in all of my 15 years of eQuest.
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<p>After the first time it happened I uninstalled, reinstalled and it worked 1<sup>st</sup> time but on closing eQuest and opening it back up again I get this message<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>Anyone have a fix for this?<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!!!!!!<span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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