# Reading annot.fif file

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**Created:** [September 25, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/reading-annot-fif-file/1959 "2019-09-25T18:29:44Z")\
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MNE group,

I am trying to extract annotations from a file reviewed and manually tagged using the MNE-C mne\_browse\_raw command. This operation creates a -annot.fif and a -eve.fif file. After I close the dataset and open it again using mne\_browse\_raw, I am able to see the events that I have defined.

Is it possible to import these events/annotations into MNE-python. When I load the data using mne.io.read\_raw\_fif, the raw.annotations is empty. I have tried mne.annotations.read\_annotations('data-annot.fif') but it says that no annotation data is present. I have also used the mne\_process\_raw to try to convert the annotations for import (with the --event -eve.fif), but it still says that no events are found. Is there a commandline method to import the annotations defined in MNE-C?

Thank you,  
Jeff Stout  
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Can you upload the `-annot.fif` and `-eve.fif` files that MNE-C produces,  
and if possible also the `_raw.fif` file that was used to interactively  
create them?

Feel free to open an MNE-Python issue about this (with a DropBox or other  
link to the files) as I suspect that we might need to iterate a bit to get  
this working.

Best,  
Eric