# A reader for .pvtu file could not be found
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [October 22, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822 "2019-10-22T23:42:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@panwolke](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/panwolke)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822/1 "2019-10-22T23:42:41Z")
Hello, i’m a new user for paraview and i write a .pvtp file which is wroten in the official file format.pdf. When i want open it in paraview 5.7.0, the software tells me that a reader could not be found. And i overview the whole reader list, i cant find XMLPartitionedPolydataReader, which supports .pvtp files. My computer is a window 10 PC. Could someone help me to solve this problem? By the way, there is only XMLPolydataReader in the whole reader list. I guess there should be more XMLReader in the list to support other format vtk files but i can’t find.
Thanks[20191022.pvtp](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/rnA37zTi6vmBizjk795CFgttFY.pvtp) (1.9 KB)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822/2 "2019-10-23T06:06:04Z")
Probably because your file is ill-formated.
Can you share it or at least its header ?
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### Author:  [@panwolke](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/panwolke)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 7:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822/3 "2019-10-23T07:27:01Z")
Thank you for notification. I have uploaded the .pvtp file.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822/4 "2019-10-23T07:44:49Z")
A .pvtp like to .vtp files. You seems to have appended the .pvtp and .vtp files together.
You can use ParaView to generate a correctly formated .pvtp and .vtp files.
Are you sure you actually want to use the .pvtp format ?
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### Author:  [@panwolke](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/panwolke)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822/5 "2019-10-23T10:02:30Z")
I want to see what does the example at the end of this pdf [https://vtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/file-formats.pdf](https://vtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/file-formats.pdf) look like in the paraview. What’s the correct process to achieve this? Thank you for your help.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822/6 "2019-10-23T11:31:12Z")
Here you go.
[20191022.pvtp](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/iqMO0YnvGOlUQTJs2hLJqCcGM0a.pvtp) (597 Bytes) [polyEx0.vtp](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/xMFlJXdx8GgvLsimiCuYkrvgq3B.vtp) (1.3 KB)
your file had also incorrect spacing, probably because of the copy from the pdf.
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### Author:  [@panwolke](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/panwolke)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/a-reader-for-pvtu-file-could-not-be-found/2822/7 "2019-10-23T12:28:23Z")
Thank you for your help! Now i know the right file format.