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I can't seem to get the idf for any commercial reference buildings to open. I have tried opening them in idf editor (e+ 8.8.0) and OpenStudio (1.13.0). I get the errors below.

OpenStudio "The collection is INVALID at strictness level 'Draft', because of the errors: Object level data error of type NoIdd . Error pertains to an object of type 'Catchall', named ''. Additional information about the error type: input data definition is missing or empty. Field level data error of type DataType . Error is in an object of type 'ShadowCalculation', named '', in field 0. Additional information about the error type: field-level data is of an incorrect type. Field level data error of type DataType . Error is in an object of type 'People', named 'Core_bottom People', in field 15. Additional information about the error type: field-level data is of an incorrect type. Field level data error of type DataType . Error is in an object of type 'Sizing:System', named '', in field 17. Additional information about the error type: field-level data is of an incorrect type."

idf editor "Too many errors were found when working on the file. Please examine the file in a text editor to fix."