Error loading .pcd file

[Habiba]

Hello everyone!
I am super new to point clouds and I am currently working on registering two sets of point cloud data. I have 2 files in .pcd format but when I try to load them into my cloudcompare they give me the following:
An error occurred while loading ' ': the third-party library in charge of saving/loading the file has failed to perform the operation.
Any help regarding how to deal with this issue or what to use to visualize the .pcd file would be highly appreciated!
I'm also new to C++ and when I am running the pcl visualization code given on the website there are a a lot of errors that are giving me a tough time.

PS: My lack of knowledge on this area might make me sound really silly, but please bear with me.

[daniel]

PCD files can be quite tricky to handle...

Which version of CC are you using? Can you share a file with me maybe? (admin[at]cloudcompare.org)

[Habiba]

I am using v2.11 alpha (64-bit)
I can't seem to attach the file here. Can I send it to you via email?

[daniel]

For the records, it was an html file containing/presenting a PCD file... Saving the PCD file properly should work much better ;)