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Hi Katie- > Full Name: katie carbonari > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: ng-tasc > Package Version: 2.8a1 build date:2009-09-23 07:11 UTC > Operating System: Mac OS X > Hardware: Java: home: > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home version: > 1.5.0_19 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: I set up a scene in IDV and save it as a bundle > (precip_pretty.xidv). Then I close down the IDV and reopen it and try to load > my bundle. I get this error: The error "java.lang.NumberFormatException: multiple points" indicates that the time string in the netCDF file has weirdly formatted dates. However, if that was the case, I wouldn't think it would open the first time. Are you changing the dataset when opening the bundle? Another issue I've seen in the past is that some operating systems don't like colons in the file names. However, I would think that would be a different error. Can you upload the file to: http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload Thanks. Don Murray > Error loading bundle: /r0/Projects/climateIrad/sc09/precip_pretty.xidv > Grid data source failed making data set: /Volumes/Macintosh > HD/net/typhoon-io-out/san5/kremena/ECHAM5/data/wrfout/wrfout_d01_2059-12-31_00:00:00 > multiple points > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong? > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.NumberFormatException: multiple points > at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:1084) > at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:482) > at java.text.DigitList.getDouble(DigitList.java:141) > at java.text.DecimalFormat.parse(DecimalFormat.java:1276) > at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.subParse(SimpleDateFormat.java:1425) > at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.parse(SimpleDateFormat.java:1174) > at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:333) > at > ucar.nc2.dataset.conv.WRFConvention.makeTimeCoordAxis(WRFConvention.java:508) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.conv.WRFConvention.augmentDataset(WRFConvention.java:275) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.enhance(NetcdfDataset.java:465) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.<init>(NetcdfDataset.java:1151) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:440) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:521) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:88) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1061) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1083) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterUnpersistence(GeoGridDataSource.java:358) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IdvPersistenceManager$17.run(IdvPersistenceManager.java:3424) > at visad.util.ThreadManager$1.run(ThreadManager.java:292) > at visad.util.ThreadPool$ThreadMinnow.run(ThreadPool.java:98) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JVQ-995591 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open