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RTC-Tools is creating a pickle at the first run to store the data about the model. (You can find it in the model folder). During the following runs the pickle is first compared to the model, and if the model has not changed the pickle is used. It makes the runs faster. However, if the pickle is created from another machine, it is not compatible with the current version. For this reason it is better not to zip it in the model folder. In order to keep it it can be created an exception when purging.
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Ensembles
RTC-Tools does not run if the ensemble id is in the timeseries_import.xml file. Therefore "<ensembleMemberFormat>hide</ensembleMemberFormat>" should be used in the general adapter.
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