diff --git a/builder/packems-index_to_intake.ipynb b/builder/packems-index_to_intake.ipynb
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7eefc15ed49e336963f0e06bbf6acba24da2766
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+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "id": "d8f066a2-2da6-4366-9d0c-5de4d3e1df1d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import intake"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 2,
+   "id": "c01445bb-83d4-4110-a53d-64a8c0da7200",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import pandas as pd"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 3,
+   "id": "40148755-29b4-4cf4-8b4f-6a02ec1560b3",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import sys\n",
+    "sys.path.insert(0, '/home/k/k204210/volume/data-infrastructure-services/intake-esm/builder/ncar-builder/builders/')"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 4,
+   "id": "50d151a4-11fc-40ce-837e-fa83d0349013",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "indexes=pd.read_csv(\"/work/ik1017/CMIP6/meta/cmip6_tape_index_paths_adjusted_2.txt\",\n",
+    "                    skiprows=3,\n",
+    "                    sep=' ',\n",
+    "                    names=[\"permissions\",\"owner\",\"size\",\"date\",\"time\",\"path\",\"temp\",\"tar\"])"
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+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 5,
+   "id": "138da396-255a-437b-88f6-1cc95986fdbb",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "indexes.loc[indexes[\"path\"].str.contains('\\:'),\"path\"]=indexes[\"temp\"]"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 6,
+   "id": "cdaa94c7-0478-42d1-b987-6ba63ce06b3f",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "indexes.loc[(indexes[\"path\"].str.contains('2019-')) &\n",
+    "        ~(indexes[\"path\"].str.contains('\\.nc')),\"path\"]=indexes[\"tar\"]\n",
+    "indexes.loc[(indexes[\"path\"].str.contains('2020-')) &\n",
+    "        ~(indexes[\"path\"].str.contains('\\.nc')),\"path\"]=indexes[\"tar\"]\n",
+    "indexes.loc[(indexes[\"path\"].str.contains('2021-')) &\n",
+    "        ~(indexes[\"path\"].str.contains('\\.nc')),\"path\"]=indexes[\"tar\"]"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 7,
+   "id": "dc84a8b5-b704-480a-83a5-05746ffb7c6b",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "indexes=indexes[~indexes[\"tar\"].str.contains('->')]\n",
+    "indexes=indexes[~indexes[\"tar\"].isna()]"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 8,
+   "id": "7e8a0556-a4f6-4af8-9db3-9c85cf7a662f",
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": []
+   },
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "Parsing list of assets...\n",
+      "\n",
+      "Done...\n",
+      "\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "from core import Builder, extract_attr_with_regex, get_asset_list, reverse_filename_format\n",
+    "from cmip import cmip6_parser\n",
+    "cmip_columns = [\n",
+    "            'activity_id',\n",
+    "            'institution_id',\n",
+    "            'source_id',\n",
+    "            'experiment_id',\n",
+    "            'member_id',\n",
+    "            'table_id',\n",
+    "            'variable_id',\n",
+    "            'grid_label',\n",
+    "            'dcpp_init_year',\n",
+    "            'version',\n",
+    "            'time_range',\n",
+    "            'path',\n",
+    "        ]\n",
+    "b = Builder(cmip_columns)\n",
+    "df = b(list(indexes[\"path\"]), cmip6_parser)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 9,
+   "id": "64cede18-6817-40cb-aa73-273fda8cf525",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "df[\"tar\"]=\"/arch/ik1017/cmip6/CMIP6/\"+indexes[\"tar\"]"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 10,
+   "id": "ae4d7bff-969a-4943-900d-5fbe0c11c74e",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "df.to_csv(\"/work/ik1017/CMIP6/meta/dkrz_cmip6_archive.csv\", index=False)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "e589b159-2853-4deb-a77e-7134fd46c588",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "taucenvkernel",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "taucenvkernel"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
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+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.10.6"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}
diff --git a/tests/dkrz_cmip6_disk_old.json b/tests/dkrz_cmip6_disk_old.json
index ef327e394fcef7d0c3e98d8dc863575eb3f41c17..30d8b2ea04f2f6bcd42c3136af0f850201edf749 100755
--- a/tests/dkrz_cmip6_disk_old.json
+++ b/tests/dkrz_cmip6_disk_old.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "esmcat_version": "0.1.0",
   "id": "mistral-cmip6",
   "description": "This is an ESM collection for CMIP6 data accessible on the DKRZ's MISTRAL disk storage system in /work/ik1017/CMIP6/data/CMIP6",
-  "catalog_file": "/mnt/lustre/work/ik1017/Catalogs/dkrz_cmip6_disk.csv.gz",
+  "catalog_file": "/work/ik1017/Catalogs/dkrz_cmip6_disk.csv.gz",
   "attributes": [
     {
       "column_name": "activity_id",