[NAADSM-support] NAADSM/PC error message: "Unrecognized scenario file"

[Aaron Reeves]

Some users are experiencing problems when opening NAADSM/PC scenario 
databases.  Upon attempting to open a database file, you may see an 
error message with the title "Unrecognized scenario file" and the text 
"This file does not appear to be a valid NAADSM scenario file.  Please 
select another file."

If you are certain that the file you are attempting to open is an NAADSM 
scenario file, the problem may be related to your regional and language 
settings.

NAADSM currently depends on US regional settings for display of things 
like numbers (a decimal point is indicated with a period rather than a 
comma) and dates (4/3/06 is April 3, not March 4).  The Windows 
operating system keeps track of these regional settings, and if your 
computer is set to use something other than US regional settings, you 
may have problems.  We have seen this problem when NAADSM is installed 
on a computer that "speaks" Spanish, French, German, or even British 
English rather than US English.

We plan to fix this problem, but to work around it in the mean time, the 
easiest thing to do is to temporarily change your regional settings to 
US English when you run NAADSM.  This is a change that you can make in 
your Windows control panel: look for "Regional settings" or "Regional 
and language options" in the control panel, and under "Regional 
options", select "English (United States)".

Aaron
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Aaron Reeves
Research Associate - Infectious Disease Modeling
Animal Population Health Institute
Colorado State University
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