# GETEFILE ERROR: input file not found: PNTS

**URL:** <https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/getefile-error-input-file-not-found-pnts/5789>\
**Category:** Run Errors and Warnings\
**Created:** [May 7, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/getefile-error-input-file-not-found-pnts/5789 "2025-05-07T20:43:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![lwu127](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@lwu127](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/lwu127)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/getefile-error-input-file-not-found-pnts/5789/1 "2025-05-07T20:43:30Z")

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Hi everyone,

I am running the canada\_ag sector of the NEI 2019 platform, i want to produce daily emission so i changed M\_TYPE and L\_TYPE to “all”, changed sectorlist to “all” and comment out MRG\_BYDAY and replace the final line in the Monthly\_canada\_ag scripts with  
$RUNSCRIPTS/emf/smk\_pt\_daily\_emf.csh $REGION\_ABBREV $REGION\_IOAPI\_GRIDNAME -m “$RUN\_MONTHS” $SPINUP\_DURATION daily and met the following error:

```auto
GETEFILE ERROR: input file not found: PNTS
 /glade/derecho/scratch/hmao/SMOKE-4.8/2019ge_cb6_19k/intermed/canada_ag/pnts_map_canada_ag_2019ge_cb6_19k.txt

     Could not open input file "PNTS".

     *** ERROR ABORT in subroutine OPENTMPIN
     Ending program "OPENTMPIN".

```

However, I have successfully run onetime script and have pnts\_map\_canada\_ag\_2019ge\_cb6\_19k.txt there. I followed this [SMOKE ptegu ERROR: input file not found: PNTS](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/smoke-ptegu-error-input-file-not-found-pnts/2256) and deleted all previous pnts files and tried again but the error still exists. I attached my run scripts here  
[Monthly\_canada\_ag\_daily\_12US1\_2019ge\_cb6\_19k.csh.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/zc6lsmO0xbTngTSQLAqtT76VvAa.txt) (7.2 KB)  
[Monthly\_canada\_ag\_onetime\_12US1\_2019ge\_cb6\_19k.csh.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/s6lQxBN6fQUaiCeTGXbHqYXQ326.txt) (7.1 KB)  
, could you help with this?  
Thanks,  
Lin

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**Author:** ![cjcoats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@cjcoats](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/cjcoats)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/getefile-error-input-file-not-found-pnts/5789/2 "2025-05-07T20:56:07Z")

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`Could not open **input** file "PNTS".`…  
…deleted all previous `pnts` files…

This program d **oes not create** the `PNTS` file – it **uses it as an input**.

And you just told me you blew it away!

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**Author:** ![lwu127](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@lwu127](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/lwu127)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/getefile-error-input-file-not-found-pnts/5789/5 "2025-05-07T21:14:32Z")

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Thanks for helping,  
I mean before i run daily, i have pnts\_map\_canada\_ag\_2019ge\_cb6\_19k.txt in the intermed/canada\_ag/ directory, but when i ran daily\_script it still shows “GETEFILE ERROR: input file not found: PNTS”. I deleted the intermediate files and rerun onetime and daily, the error still exists.  
Thanks,  
Lin

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**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/getefile-error-input-file-not-found-pnts/5789/6 "2025-05-09T13:34:33Z")

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The error is because smk\_pt\_daily\_emf.csh will only work with smk\_pt\_annual\_onetime\_emf.csh, not with smk\_pt\_monthly\_onetime\_emf.csh. The 2019ge Canada\_ag sector requires smk\_pt\_monthly\_onetime\_emf.csh because the sector includes monthly inventories instead of annual inventories, so you need to leave the onetime script alone and can’t switch to the annual onetime script.

This is actually a unique situation – point sector + monthly inventories and you want to use daily emissions from SMOKE. We suggest reverting back to the original settings and scripts (including smk\_pt\_monthly\_byday\_emf.csh), and only changing M\_TYPE=all and the sectorlist value to ‘all’, and leaving L\_TYPE and MRG\_BYDAY as they originally were. If that doesn’t work, let us know.

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**Author:** ![lwu127](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@lwu127](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/lwu127)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/getefile-error-input-file-not-found-pnts/5789/7 "2025-05-12T13:57:43Z")

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It works. Thanks so much!  
Lin