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Dear Marlyne, This is very likely related to a non-standard character in your ncml file specifically on on line 4. Perhaps it is an accented character or an apostrophe? Please replace the non-standard character with a standard ASCII character. Please keep up us up to date on your progress. Best Wishes, Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: Marlyne Jaimes > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: CICESE > Package Version: 4.0u1 build date:2013-03-29 18:10 UTC > Operating System: Windows 8 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_4.0u1\jre version: 1.6.0_43 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:imagegrid with: > [C:\Users\Marlyne\Documents\Maestria\Materias\T?cnicas de Percepci?n > Remota\Clase IDV\DATOS_IDV\GOES-15\WV\201208301600.goes15wv, > C:\Users\Marlyne\Documents\Maestria\Materias\T?cnicas de Percepci?n > Remota\Clase IDV\DATOS_IDV\GOES-15\WV\201208301700.goes15wv] > Grid data source failed making data set: > C:\Users\Marlyne\.unidata\idv\DefaultIdv\tmp\multigrid_bd082744-81d0-45ad-8202-a7b3d58a8e210.ncml > Error on line 4 of document > file:C:/Users/Marlyne/.unidata/idv/DefaultIdv/tmp/multigrid_bd082744-81d0-45ad-8202-a7b3d58a8e210.ncml: > Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence. > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.io.IOException: Error on line 4 of document > file:C:/Users/Marlyne/.unidata/idv/DefaultIdv/tmp/multigrid_bd082744-81d0-45ad-8202-a7b3d58a8e210.ncml: > Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence. > at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:233) > at ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLReader.readNcML(NcMLReader.java:202) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireNcml(NetcdfDataset.java:841) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:680) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:418) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:513) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:104) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:90) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1113) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1135) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterCreation(GeoGridDataSource.java:499) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1597) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1804) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:656) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:525) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:547) > 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$2.run(Misc.java:1221) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1249) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JIC-902955 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed