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Dear Opaluwa, Please ensure you select the "Data Source Type" of "Trajectory Sounding Files". Best Wishes, Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: Opaluwa Yusuf Drisu > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia > Package Version: 4.1 build date:2013-08-02 18:38 UTC > Operating System: Windows 8 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_4.1\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:file.profiler2 with: C:\Users\G&G\Desktop\Old > desktop\Desktop\CDAAC DATA\cosmic > 2011\wetPrf\2011.001\wetPrf_C001.2011.001.02.23.G11_2010.2640_nc > Could not open trajectory file:C:\Users\G&G\Desktop\Old desktop\Desktop\CDAAC > DATA\cosmic 2011\wetPrf\2011.001\wetPrf_C001.2011.001.02.23.G11_2010.2640_nc > > I have some netCDF profile files from CDAAC website which I want to > use for some analysis. I attempted using UNAVCO IDV to open the file > and the above error message was issued. I also downloaded raw GPS data > from COSMIC satellite for POD but the files were also saved in binary > (*.bin) format and I cannot open them for use in my research. please > how can I go about these. > > ****************** > Stack trace: > ucar.unidata.data.BadDataException: Could not open trajectory > file:C:\Users\G&G\Desktop\Old desktop\Desktop\CDAAC DATA\cosmic > 2011\wetPrf\2011.001\wetPrf_C001.2011.001.02.23.G11_2010.2640_nc > at > ucar.unidata.data.profiler.CDMProfilerDataSource.initProfiler(CDMProfilerDataSource.java:396) > at > ucar.unidata.data.profiler.CDMProfilerDataSource.initProfilerAll(CDMProfilerDataSource.java:373) > at > ucar.unidata.data.profiler.CDMProfilerDataSource.<init>(CDMProfilerDataSource.java:180) > at > ucar.unidata.data.profiler.CDMProfilerDataSource.<init>(CDMProfilerDataSource.java:158) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1590) > 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:1223) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1251) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: WCA-841188 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed