HUGE PDL file

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Hi Equest world,

I am having a tough time opening and accessing a relatively small Equest 3,65 model (it worked a short time ago).

Looking at the files, I notice that the *.PDL file is over 2.6 GB in size?usually these are 100-800 kb!!

Any idea what could be the problem?

Thanks!

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Delete everything but the inp and pd2.

I've got no explanation as to why it's huge, but I've been doing that successfully

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That did it Julien!

Thanks!

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I would note that you should save you .prd file as well if you set up any parametric runs.

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Absolutely, thanks Nathan.

I wrote that Quickly. I hope no prd file was deleted because of me.

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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.

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Thank you all for the quick reply!

As always, this is proving to be an exceedingly useful list-serve.

Best!

Jeff Ross-Bain, PE, LEED Fellow
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