# Invalid metadata
**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/invalid-metadata/10769
**Category:** User Support
**Created:** [July 20, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/invalid-metadata/10769 "2019-07-20T20:36:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Sammi](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Sammi)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/invalid-metadata/10769/1 "2019-07-20T20:36:39Z")
Thank you for the reply!
I actually headed to different direction to figure out this mess..and i finally got to the point where i need to upload my metadata file( not the manifest file which it worked), and im having very similar error as the manifest file...
**There was an issue with loading the file vagus\_map.csv as metadata:**
**Found unrecognized ID column name 'sample-id,Time,Diet' while searching for header. The first column name in the header defines the ID column, and must be one of these values:**
**Case-insensitive: 'feature id', 'feature-id', 'featureid', 'id', 'sample id', 'sample-id', 'sampleid'**
**Case-sensitive: '#OTU ID', '#OTUID', '#Sample ID', '#SampleID', 'sample\_name'**
**There may be more errors present in the metadata file. To get a full report, sample/feature metadata files can be validated with Keemei: [https://keemei.qiime2.org](https://keemei.qiime2.org)**
**Find details on QIIME 2 metadata requirements here: [Metadata in QIIME 2 — QIIME 2 2019.4.0 documentation](https://docs.qiime2.org/2019.4/tutorials/metadata/)**
I validated my file via Keemi and i used the UTD-8 ver of csv file?
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### Author:  [@timanix](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/timanix)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/invalid-metadata/10769/2 "2019-07-21T14:18:49Z")
Hi! I suppose you should save you metadata file as metadata.tsv, not metadata.csv format and it should work
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### Author:  [@Sammi](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Sammi)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/invalid-metadata/10769/3 "2019-07-21T14:23:34Z")
I have done trying the tsv file,
But this is what i would get...
**There was an issue with loading the file vagus\_map.tsv as metadata:**
**Metadata file must be encoded as UTF-8 or ASCII, found UTF-16. If this file is from Microsoft Excel, save as a plain text file, not 'UTF-16 Unicode'**
**There may be more errors present in the metadata file. To get a full report, sample/feature metadata files can be validated with Keemei: [https://keemei.qiime2.org](https://keemei.qiime2.org)**
**Find details on QIIME 2 metadata requirements here: [Metadata in QIIME 2 — QIIME 2 2019.4.0 documentation](https://docs.qiime2.org/2019.4/tutorials/metadata/)**
I also have tried txt file but still an error..
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### Author:  [@timanix](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/timanix)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/invalid-metadata/10769/4 "2019-07-21T14:38:10Z")
Ok. Just try next steps 🙂
1. Open Google spread sheets
2. Install keemei plugin
3. Copy and paste all data
4. Check with keemei
5. Download as tsv file.
This steps usually work without errors.
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### Author:  [@Sammi](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Sammi)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/invalid-metadata/10769/5 "2019-07-21T14:49:52Z")
Thank you!!!!!! it worked.
I did not know about exporting into tsv file from keemei.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/invalid-metadata/10769/6 "2019-08-21T20:49:53Z")
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