Abaqus/Explicit import analysis fails during earlly preprocessing when accessing original analysis job files

Hello everyone

I am performing an import analysis from Abaqus/Standard to Abaqus/Explicit. The original Standard job generated all the required files (.odb, .mdl, .prt, .stt, etc.), and the import model is configured according to the Abaqus documentation.

However, during preprocessing of the Explicit import job, Abaqus stops when attempting to access the original analysis library files. The job fails before the analysis starts (see the snapshot attached).


One detail that may be relevant is that the original Abaqus/Standard analysis was in one case manually stopped by the user before completion, and in a second case the anaylys Standard was stopped by command line "-terminate". 

All the required import files exist in the working directory but I am wondering whether the manual termination or command line termination may have left the import/restart library incomplete, corrupted or locked.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Could you provide me a fix?

 

Thank you