# Associating Time to Data in order to Animate

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/associating-time-to-data-in-order-to-animate/2231
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 16, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/associating-time-to-data-in-order-to-animate/2231 "2019-07-16T13:42:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/associating-time-to-data-in-order-to-animate/2231/21 "2019-07-25T20:27:52Z")

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It’s hard to say without more details. Please attach a file (one timestep is fine) with the `vel` vector field.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/associating-time-to-data-in-order-to-animate/2231/23 "2020-10-30T14:02:41Z")

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Unrelated, please open your own thread.

In any case, you need to rename your file something like :

- VTK\_Praview\_1.vtk
- VTK\_Praview\_2.vtk

And then open the file series instead of opening the individual files.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/associating-time-to-data-in-order-to-animate/2231/24 "2020-10-30T14:02:45Z")

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