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<div>Thanks Tim for the advice,</div>
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<div><font face="tahoma">It turned out one of my optimisation<a></a> variables was called 'UnitOverlap<a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a>' and if you name any variable in the equation editor 'Unit', GenOpt<a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a><a></a>
will pick it up in the Error Function Selection and this is the program<a></a> GenOpt<a></a> is trying to locate (but obviously can't).</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma">Thanks,</font></div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Timothy McDowell [mcdowell@tess-inc.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 September 2011 19:06<br>
<b>To:</b> Richard Hall; trnsys-users@cae.wisc.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [TRNSYS-users] Any Idea about the GenOpt error - "The program couldnot find all the files. Please check your directory settings"<br>
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<div>Richard -<br>
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That error means that TrnOpt had an error writing one of the many files that GenOpt uses to run the optimization. Check that you do not have one of the files open in a different program when you try to run the optimization.<br>
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<strong>From:</strong> "Richard Hall" <r.hall@steel-sci.com> <br>
<strong>Sent:</strong> Fri, September 2, 2011 13:02<br>
<strong>Subject:</strong> [TRNSYS-users] Any Idea about the G enOpt error - "The program couldnot find all the files. Please check your directory settings"<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Hi TRNSYS Users,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">I have a problem with GenOpt where when I press the 'Run Optimization' button the following error message occurs:</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">I am 90% sure it is not referring to the File Locations (GenOpt, Java and TRNSYS) as GenOpt works fine with the TESS example model. Any ideas about what files it is referring to?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Richard</font></div>
<a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/richard-hall/32/26a/ba2" target="_blank">http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/richard-hall/32/26a/ba2</a>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">What I have tried and checked:</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma">The TESS example GenOpt model works;</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma">Correct version of GenOpt and TRNSYS installed;</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma">I have used GenOpt with other models that I have created and it has worked fine;</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma">The simulation of the model works;</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma">Restarting my computer.</font></div>
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<p><font face="tahoma"><font face="tahoma">Note:The</font> model is reasonable simple but does contain user written components.</font></p>
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