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Jason- > Institution: No organization > Package Version: 2.1 > Operating System: Windows XP > Hardware Information: Java: home: C:\\Program Files\\IDV_2.1\\jre version: > 1.5.0_06 j3d:1.3.2 fcs (build12) > Inquiry: An error has occurred: > There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:FILE.RADAR with: [Ljava.lang.String;@1962534 > null > Cant read C:/Documents and Settings/Pat and Jason/Desktop/LEVEL > II/Indianapolis IN/6500KIND20070403_141100.tgz: not a valid NetCDF file. The .tgz extension indicates that this is a gzipped tar file. You'll need to uncompress and untar the file before the IDV can read it. See: http://www.gzip.org/#faq6 for information on how to do this. Don Murray > ****************** > Stack trace: > visad.VisADException: Cant read C:/Documents and Settings/Pat and > Jason/Desktop/LEVEL II/Indianapolis IN/6500KIND20070403_141100.tgz: not a > valid NetCDF file. > at ucar.unidata.data.radar.CDMRadarAdapter.init(CDMRadarAdapter.java:345) > at ucar.unidata.data.radar.CDMRadarAdapter.<init>(CDMRadarAdapter.java:156) > at > ucar.unidata.data.radar.CDMRadarDataSource.makeRadarAdapter(CDMRadarDataSource.java:320) > at > ucar.unidata.data.radar.RadarDataSource.makeAdapters(RadarDataSource.java:222) > at > ucar.unidata.data.radar.RadarDataSource.getAdapters(RadarDataSource.java:189) > at > ucar.unidata.data.radar.RadarDataSource.getRadarAdapters(RadarDataSource.java:423) > at > ucar.unidata.data.radar.CDMRadarDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(CDMRadarDataSource.java:134) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1136) > at ucar.unidata.data.FilesDataSource.sourcesChanged(FilesDataSource.java:254) > at > ucar.unidata.data.FilesDataSource.initWithPollingInfo(FilesDataSource.java:209) > at > ucar.unidata.data.FilesDataSource.initAfterCreation(FilesDataSource.java:156) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1086) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1603) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1522) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1500) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1481) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:612) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.Level2RadarChooser.selectFilesInner(Level2RadarChooser.java:264) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:497) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:519) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$1.run(Misc.java:903) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:931) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GYS-481638 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open