# How to open .EEG file

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**Created:** [February 5, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/how-to-open-eeg-file/1414 "2018-02-05T17:31:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/how-to-open-eeg-file/1414/1 "2018-02-05T17:31:45Z")

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Hello MNE community,

I'm rather new to this library/Python and I'm having some trouble  
trying to read a data file, I've tried consulting the data I/O  
examples and tutorials but I could not find anything related to that.  
After some searching I did find a function that apparently read .EEG  
files but I'm not sure how to use it (As I said earlier, I'm pretty  
new to this).

I've tried using raw = mne.io.read\_raw\_ctf(data\_path), because the  
function that reads .EEG files is in the crt folder.

Thank you very much

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**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/how-to-open-eeg-file/1414/2 "2018-02-05T21:57:26Z")

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What system / program did the `.eeg` file come from?

Eric

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/how-to-open-eeg-file/1414/3 "2018-02-07T18:26:41Z")

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I'm using a Neurofax EEG-1200

I've "worked around" the problem exporting the data in .edf format.

Citando Eric Larson \<larson.eric.d at [gmail.com](http://gmail.com)\>: