Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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Answer provided by EnergyPlus Support:
"I am not sure why the -x command is not working without seeing some examples of your setup, especially this is based on a very old version of EnergyPlus. However, it seems that for your purpose, you can also try the version of expidf file after the expanded object finished running in EP-Launch.
To do that, first run your very original .idf file as usual in EP-Launch. After a successfully run, you should then you find a .expidf file with the same name as your original .idf file. Now just rename the .expidf file to an .idf—you probably want to do that in a different folder, or change the file with a different name in the same folder. After that, you should use the renamed .idf file to run in command line mode as a new start—and this time without using the “-x” option.
You probably just need to this once. After you completed the procedure, just use the regular option (no -x) to run the renamed .idf file it should be ok."
It worked perfectly, the problem is solved.
