# No .rabund file formed

**URL:** <https://forum.mothur.org/t/no-rabund-file-formed/3469>\
**Category:** Commands in mothur\
**Created:** [December 22, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/no-rabund-file-formed/3469 "2017-12-22T10:47:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![sushmita16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sushmita16](https://forum.mothur.org/u/sushmita16)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/no-rabund-file-formed/3469/1 "2017-12-22T10:47:08Z")

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I was following Mealybug’s mothur pipeline analysis guidelines on a different dataset and everything was fine until “Clustering sequences in OTUs” step. In this, when I am running the “make.shared” command, I am not getting the rabund files for the 42 samples I have, as should be formed. Only the .shared file is generated.  
What could be the possible mistake that I might have made?  
Also, if it is of any help - I don’t have any mock community for assessing the error rates in my sample.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![pschloss](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/pschloss/32/4_2.png) [@pschloss](https://forum.mothur.org/u/pschloss)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/no-rabund-file-formed/3469/2 "2017-12-22T15:02:43Z")

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I think we removed that output. You can always run get.rabund if you need those files. We found that the rabund files weren’t used much.

pat