Smkinven error and how to edit inputs in NEI modeling platform v7.1

NEI Modeling Platform Run script Issues
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Hi, all;

I want to run ag sector with North Carolina in NEI modeling platform v7.1. The steps I took are listed below.

  1. Download the csv files in the input directory
  2. Open Excel on my local PC and delete all rows for North Carolina
  3. Save it to csv again and upload to the input directory

It seems that during the file transfer the FF10 format changes a little bit which induces format error message in the smkinven log file. The error looks like below.

 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9011 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9011 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9013 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 ERROR: Could not find time zone for county: 0000000 9015 from COSTCY file
 
 *** ERROR ABORT in subroutine RDFF10PD
 Problem processing day- or hour-specific data

Is it the right way to edit the inputs in NEI modeling platform? Thank you!

Best;
Yijia

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We do not recommend using Excel to delete rows in input files because as you noted it changes the format, drops leading zeros, etc.

You should use a plain text editor – I think Wordpad could work, vi, there are many others.

If you are running SMOKE on Linux, you can also edit it with a text editor there.