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Robbie, This post may help you: http://mailman.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/idv/msg06204.html Pay special attention to the 'scale=-1 in the "Extra" field' comment. If that does not work, please upload your data here: http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload Let us know when it is there. Best, Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: Robbie Eisenrich > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: UMD > Package Version: 5.0u2 build date:2014-11-12 20:09 UTC > Operating System: Windows 8 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files (x86)\IDV_5.0u2\jre version: 1.7.0_51 > j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily > Description of problem: > > Hello- > > I am trying to get my depths to come up as negative so that they show > up in IDV as an depth rather then an altitude above zero. To do thisI > opened the CSV file in excel and changed the depth column which was > positive to negative. I than saved it and attempted to upload it as a > text point data file to CDV. However it did not work. How should i go > about making my depths show up as a negative altitude? > > Thanks > Robbie > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.io.IOException: Could not load resource:%idv.bundlepath%/CSV point data > error:java.io.FileNotFoundException: Unable to open:%idv.bundlepath%/CSV > point data > at ucar.unidata.util.IOUtil.getInputStream(IOUtil.java:1301) > at ucar.unidata.util.IOUtil.readContents(IOUtil.java:1609) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getContents(TextPointDataSource.java:543) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:483) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:2575) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.getFullDescription(PointDataSource.java:1338) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.getDataSourceHtml(DataManager.java:664) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.showSupportFormInThread(IdvUIManager.java:6131) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.access$800(IdvUIManager.java:166) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager$33.run(IdvUIManager.java:6063) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RTV-146864 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed