# Crash of \*.vtk file if stored and reopened in ASCII
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-of-vtk-file-if-stored-and-reopened-in-ascii/1819
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 10, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-of-vtk-file-if-stored-and-reopened-in-ascii/1819 "2019-05-10T09:27:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Gerald\_Lodron](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Gerald_Lodron)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-of-vtk-file-if-stored-and-reopened-in-ascii/1819/1 "2019-05-10T09:27:57Z")
Create an arbitrary vtkPolyData object with some data stored in Field Data and store it with vtkPolyDataWriter in ASCII format. If you open it in paraview it crashes. If you store it in Binary format it works…
As an example open my enclosed color\_000125.vtk which is stored binary. As you can see in paraview Spreadsheet view it has some field data arrays. Now store the dataset in paraview as ASCII vtk data and try to reload it, it will crash[color\_000125.vtk](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/ffd250373fb26b3a921eabbf33607d13d56269be.vtk) (17.8 KB)
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-of-vtk-file-if-stored-and-reopened-in-ascii/1819/2 "2019-05-10T11:48:01Z")
What version and OS of ParaView? I am able to save to ASCII and load the file without a crash with 5.6 on macOS.
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### Author:  [@Gerald\_Lodron](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Gerald_Lodron)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-of-vtk-file-if-stored-and-reopened-in-ascii/1819/3 "2019-05-10T11:49:24Z")
ok, maybe it is already fixed. We are using a quite old paraview 5.2.0-RC4 64-bit. Didn’t got time to update it yet… (because we are using some plugins and would have to update all our libs)
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### Author:  [@Gerald\_Lodron](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Gerald_Lodron)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-of-vtk-file-if-stored-and-reopened-in-ascii/1819/4 "2019-05-10T11:51:38Z")
Windows, sry