diff --git a/applications/isotropic_remeshing/examples/raw/camel.json b/applications/isotropic_remeshing/examples/raw/camel.json
index 9f90edb653..87e7a600df 100644
--- a/applications/isotropic_remeshing/examples/raw/camel.json
+++ b/applications/isotropic_remeshing/examples/raw/camel.json
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
     },
     "root": "/home/mtao/git/wildmeshing-toolkit/data/aa0abd4658bb064515ee7cc2a7be87aa",
         "position_attribute": "vertices",
-        "iterations": 30,
-        "length_rel": 1,
+        "iterations": 5,
+        "length_rel": 0.01,
         "length_abs": -1,
         "lock_boundary": true,
         "edge_swap_mode": "valence",
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@
         "fix_uv_seam": false,
         "output": {
             "path": "output.hdf5",
-            "type": "hdf5"
+            "type": ".hdf5"
         }
 }
diff --git a/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/InputOptions.cpp b/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/InputOptions.cpp
index 35c88c4c2a..9470e6f634 100644
--- a/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/InputOptions.cpp
+++ b/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/InputOptions.cpp
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ namespace nlohmann {
 void adl_serializer<wmtk::components::input::InputOptions>::to_json(json& j, const Type& v)
 {
     //
-    j["file"] = v.file;
-    j["file"] = v.file.string();
+    j["path"] = v.path;
+    j["path"] = v.path.string();
     if (!v.name_spec.is_null()) {
         assert(!v.name_spec_file.has_value());
         j["name_spec"] = v.name_spec;
@@ -44,10 +44,15 @@ void adl_serializer<wmtk::components::input::InputOptions>::to_json(json& j, con
 void adl_serializer<wmtk::components::input::InputOptions>::from_json(const json& j, Type& v)
 {
     if (j.is_string()) {
-        v.file = j.get<std::filesystem::path>();
+        v.path= j.get<std::filesystem::path>();
         return;
+    } else if(j.contains("path")) {
+        v.path = j["path"].get<std::filesystem::path>();
+    } else if(j.contains("file")) {
+        wmtk::logger().warn("InputOptions using file is deprecated, use file");
+        v.path = j["file"].get<std::filesystem::path>();
     }
-    v.file = j["file"].get<std::filesystem::path>();
+
     if (j.contains("name_spec")) {
         v.name_spec = j["name_spec"];
     }
diff --git a/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/InputOptions.hpp b/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/InputOptions.hpp
index 3a37a68cf3..0328c0eac8 100644
--- a/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/InputOptions.hpp
+++ b/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/InputOptions.hpp
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ class InputOptions
 public:
     InputOptions();
     ~InputOptions();
-    std::filesystem::path file;
+    std::filesystem::path path;
     std::optional<std::vector<std::vector<std::string>>> imported_attributes;
 
 
diff --git a/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/input.cpp b/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/input.cpp
index 9822a30351..f78d4e0918 100644
--- a/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/input.cpp
+++ b/components/input/src/wmtk/components/input/input.cpp
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<Mesh> input(
 {
     InputOptions options;
     options.old_mode = true;
-    options.file = file;
+    options.path = file;
     options.ignore_z_if_zero = ignore_z_if_zero;
     if (!tetrahedron_attributes.empty()) {
         options.imported_attributes = {{}, {}, {}, tetrahedron_attributes};
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ multimesh::NamedMultiMesh input(
     const InputOptions& options,
     const components::utils::PathResolver& resolver)
 {
-    const auto [file_path, found] = resolver.resolve(options.file);
+    const auto [file_path, found] = resolver.resolve(options.path);
     if (!found) {
         const auto& paths = resolver.get_paths();
         std::vector<std::string> path_strs;
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ multimesh::NamedMultiMesh input(
         log_and_throw_error(
             "file [{}] not found (input path was [{}], paths searched were [{}]",
             file_path.string(),
-            options.file.string(),
+            options.path.string(),
             fmt::join(path_strs, ","));
     }
 
diff --git a/components/input/tests/input.cpp b/components/input/tests/input.cpp
index d0b8a810e9..c42f52a7eb 100644
--- a/components/input/tests/input.cpp
+++ b/components/input/tests/input.cpp
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ TEST_CASE("component_input", "[components][input]")
             {"ignore_z", false},
             {"tetrahedron_attributes", json::array()}};
         auto opts = component_json.get<wmtk::components::input::InputOptions>();
-        CHECK(opts.file == input_file);
+        CHECK(opts.path == input_file);
         CHECK(opts.ignore_z_if_zero == false);
         CHECK(opts.old_mode == true);
         CHECK(opts.old_mode == true);
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ TEST_CASE("component_input", "[components][input]")
         nlohmann::json js = "path";
         REQUIRE(js.is_string());
         auto opts = js.get<wmtk::components::input::InputOptions>();
-        CHECK(opts.file.string() == "path");
+        CHECK(opts.path.string() == "path");
     }
 
     SECTION("should throw")
diff --git a/components/output/wmtk/components/output/OutputOptions.cpp b/components/output/wmtk/components/output/OutputOptions.cpp
index 05507e6501..0c44c7aab7 100644
--- a/components/output/wmtk/components/output/OutputOptions.cpp
+++ b/components/output/wmtk/components/output/OutputOptions.cpp
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ namespace wmtk::components::output {
 
 WMTK_NLOHMANN_JSON_FRIEND_TO_JSON_PROTOTYPE(OutputOptions)
 {
-    WMTK_NLOHMANN_ASSIGN_TYPE_TO_JSON(file, type)
+    WMTK_NLOHMANN_ASSIGN_TYPE_TO_JSON(path, type)
     if (nlohmann_json_t.mesh_name_path.has_value()) {
         nlohmann_json_j["mesh_name_path"] = nlohmann_json_t.mesh_name_path.value();
     }
@@ -33,17 +33,20 @@ WMTK_NLOHMANN_JSON_FRIEND_TO_JSON_PROTOTYPE(OutputOptions)
 WMTK_NLOHMANN_JSON_FRIEND_FROM_JSON_PROTOTYPE(OutputOptions)
 {
     if (nlohmann_json_j.is_string()) {
-        nlohmann_json_t.file = nlohmann_json_j.get<std::filesystem::path>();
-    } else {
-        nlohmann_json_t.file = nlohmann_json_j["file"].get<std::filesystem::path>();
+        nlohmann_json_t.path = nlohmann_json_j.get<std::filesystem::path>();
+    } else if(nlohmann_json_j.contains("path")) {
+        nlohmann_json_t.path = nlohmann_json_j["path"].get<std::filesystem::path>();
+    } else if(nlohmann_json_j.contains("file")) {
+        wmtk::logger().warn("OutputOptions using file is deprecated, use file");
+        nlohmann_json_t.path = nlohmann_json_j["file"].get<std::filesystem::path>();
     }
     if (nlohmann_json_j.contains("type")) {
         nlohmann_json_t.type = nlohmann_json_j["type"];
     } else {
-        nlohmann_json_t.type = nlohmann_json_t.file.extension().string();
+        nlohmann_json_t.type = nlohmann_json_t.path.extension().string();
         wmtk::logger().debug(
             "Guessing extension type of [{}] is [{}]",
-            nlohmann_json_t.file,
+            nlohmann_json_t.path,
             nlohmann_json_t.type);
     }
     if (nlohmann_json_j.contains("position_attribute")) {
diff --git a/components/output/wmtk/components/output/OutputOptions.hpp b/components/output/wmtk/components/output/OutputOptions.hpp
index f3b7565af6..ac4acb1a2f 100644
--- a/components/output/wmtk/components/output/OutputOptions.hpp
+++ b/components/output/wmtk/components/output/OutputOptions.hpp
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 namespace wmtk::components::output {
 struct OutputOptions
 {
-    std::filesystem::path file;
+    std::filesystem::path path;
 
     std::string type;
 
diff --git a/components/output/wmtk/components/output/output.cpp b/components/output/wmtk/components/output/output.cpp
index 511d84b5a4..9b2a039a82 100644
--- a/components/output/wmtk/components/output/output.cpp
+++ b/components/output/wmtk/components/output/output.cpp
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ void output(
         for (int64_t d = 0; d <= mesh.top_cell_dimension(); ++d) {
             out[d] = true;
         }
-        ParaviewWriter writer(opts.file,name, mesh, out[0], out[1], out[2], out[3]);
+        ParaviewWriter writer(opts.path,name, mesh, out[0], out[1], out[2], out[3]);
         mesh.serialize(writer);
     } else if (opts.type == ".hdf5") {
-        output_hdf5(mesh, opts.file);
+        output_hdf5(mesh, opts.path);
     } else
         throw std::runtime_error(
                 fmt::format("Unable to write file [{}] of extension [{}]",
-                    opts.file, opts.type));
+                    opts.path, opts.type));
 }
 
 void output(