[MITgcm-support] clever pickup too clever for me

[Matthew Mazloff]

Hello JMC,

I recently updated. It has been quite awhile since last update.     
When trying to run the model it immediately blew up.  I strongly  
suspect that it is the  "clever pickup" as the model blows up in 2  
time steps.  I think fields are being improperly initialized.

I don't have the pickup meta files so I use
  pickupStrictlyMatch=.FALSE.,
and I get the following warnings
(PID.TID 0001.0001) WARNING >> MDS_READ_META: file: pickup. 
0000000001.meta , pickup.0000000001.001.001.meta
(PID.TID 0001.0001) WARNING >> MDS_READ_META: Files DO not exist
(PID.TID 0001.0001) WARNING >> READ_PICKUP:  no field-list found
(PID.TID 0001.0001) WARNING >>  try to read pickup as currently written
(PID.TID 0001.0001) WARNING >> MDS_READ_META: file: pickup_seaice. 
0000000001.meta , pickup_seaice.0000000001.001.001.meta
(PID.TID 0001.0001) WARNING >> MDS_READ_META: Files DO not exist
(PID.TID 0001.0001) WARNING >> SEAICE_READ_PICKUP:  no field-list found
(PID.TID 0001.0001) WARNING >>  try to read pickup as currently written

So what has changed...I don't mind restructuring pickup.data or  
making a meta file...but can you please let me know the best way to  
do this.

Or is it possibly not the clever pickup?

-Thanks
Matt