title: How to fix "End of HDF5 error back trace Unable to open/create file"
body: <p>i try to open a h5 file and it give me an error and cannot read it. I show here the code which really basic, and the file i located it in the same directory I'm working on. This is the code:</p>
  
  <p>I already updated pandas, pytables, pathlib
  I tried with h5py.File</p>
  
  <pre><code>store = pd.HDFStore(path_to_file)
     df = store['data']
     store.close()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the error:</p>
  
  <p>File "tables/hdf5extension.pyx", line 492, in   tables.hdf5extension.File._g_new</p>
  
  <p>HDF5ExtError: HDF5 error back trace
  ...</p>
  
  <p>End of HDF5 error back trace</p>
  
  <p>Unable to open/create file</p>
  
  <p>I hope you can help me
  Many thanks!</p>