# Trouble loading data through intake catalog

**URL:** <https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trouble-loading-data-through-intake-catalog/5576>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Created:** [19 November 2025 03:59 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trouble-loading-data-through-intake-catalog/5576 "2025-11-19T03:59:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ribeirosantosn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@ribeirosantosn](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/ribeirosantosn)\
**Post date:** [19 November 2025 03:59 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trouble-loading-data-through-intake-catalog/5576/1 "2025-11-19T03:59:15Z")

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Hi,

Probably a bit late on all this, but I am trying to use an old notebook of mine to remake a video, but can’t load the data.  
I have launched a Jupyter lab session through ARE using these instructions: [How do I use it? — ACCESS-NRI Intake catalog documentation](https://access-nri-intake-catalog.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/how.html)  
And tried loading data through:

 ![Screenshot 2025-11-19 145752](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/access1/original/2X/3/3be33ec55aa14e2ff719efeb934ffe9c60f89757.png)

But then I get this error:

![Screenshot 2025-11-19 145805](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/access1/original/2X/7/7f1be0f83c03ff53e9e139352f3a68ae3fa7a02c.png)

Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![lidefi87](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/lidefi87/32/91_2.png) [@lidefi87](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/lidefi87)\
**Post date:** [19 November 2025 23:00 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trouble-loading-data-through-intake-catalog/5576/2 "2025-11-19T23:00:45Z")

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The following code worked for me on conda env analysis3-25.10:

```auto
import warnings
# Suppress warnings for these docs
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore") 

from distributed import Client
client = Client(threads_per_worker=1)
client.dashboard_link

import intake
catalog = intake.cat.access_nri

ds = catalog['01deg_jra55v140_iaf_cycle3'].search(variable = 'temp', frequency = '1mon').to_dask()

```

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**Author:** ![lawrenceabird](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/lawrenceabird/32/3271_2.png) [@lawrenceabird](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/lawrenceabird)\
**Post date:** [19 November 2025 23:01 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trouble-loading-data-through-intake-catalog/5576/3 "2025-11-19T23:01:37Z")

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Hi @ribeirosantosn:

Thanks for starting this topic! @CharlesTurner is going to look into this for you and he’ll get back to you in due course!

Cheers,

Lawrence

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**Author:** ![CharlesTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/charlesturner/32/2518_2.png) [@CharlesTurner](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/CharlesTurner)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2025 00:38 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trouble-loading-data-through-intake-catalog/5576/4 "2025-11-20T00:38:43Z")

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Most commonly we see these sort of issues when people don’t have the right projects enabled in their ARE session. I’ve also been able to load the dataset fine - are you able to confirm that you have `cj50` added to your storage flags?

To do so, you can run:

```python
from access_nri_intake.ipython_magic import check_storage_enabled

```

and then in the cell where you try to load the data:

```ipython
%%check_storage_enabled
ds = catalog['01deg_jra55v140_iaf_cycle3'].search(variable = 'temp', frequency = '1mon').to_dask()

```

And let me know if that tells you anything?

Failing that, could you paste in the full stack trace from the failure here - I know it will be pretty long.

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![ribeirosantosn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@ribeirosantosn](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/ribeirosantosn)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2025 00:59 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trouble-loading-data-through-intake-catalog/5576/5 "2025-11-20T00:59:12Z")

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Hi Charles,

Thank you. Sure enough, in spite of my extensive list on storage I forgot to add which to me was the obvious one (x77). Thank you!

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**Author:** ![CharlesTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/charlesturner/32/2518_2.png) [@CharlesTurner](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/CharlesTurner)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2025 01:20 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trouble-loading-data-through-intake-catalog/5576/6 "2025-11-20T01:20:13Z")

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Glad it was a simple fix!