# Crash with plot over line tool
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-with-plot-over-line-tool/17212
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 26, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-with-plot-over-line-tool/17212 "2025-09-26T10:30:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Federico\_Feliziani](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Federico_Feliziani)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-with-plot-over-line-tool/17212/1 "2025-09-26T10:30:02Z")
Hello,
I’m trying to export to CSV the data from a Plot Over Line. The export starts, but it consistently stops at time step 806, causing ParaView to crash. Attached you can find the csv I’m able to export so far.
The simulation contains 2,191 time steps. From the overall results, there doesn’t seem to be any issue when advancing from step 805 to 807:
**Step 805**
**Step 806**
**Step 807**
These are the settings I’m using for saving:
I just can’t understand what this could depend on. I cannot load the original file I am analyzing in Paraview because it is too large.
Can anyone help me?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-with-plot-over-line-tool/17212/2 "2025-09-26T10:31:18Z")
please share your data.
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### Author:  [@Federico\_Feliziani](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Federico_Feliziani)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-with-plot-over-line-tool/17212/3 "2025-09-26T10:53:10Z")
Thank you Mathieu!
I’m not able to share the entire dataset because it’s about 45 GB. However, here you can find the files for steps 750 to 900:
> **[Paraview - Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12q8ekmTcOb8eGjd18DqyAwNU9SDamdMB?usp=drive_link)**
The filenames follow this pattern:
`Thermal_3Y_composite_ddr0p0_dar0p0_dm0p0_Run_2_femdem.r2m_basic_` **`648000`** `.vtu`
You can determine the corresponding step by dividing the final numeric suffix by 720.
For example, `…_` **`648000`** `.vtu` → 648000 / 720 = **900**.
In the shared folder, you can also find the coordinates of the plot lines I used.
Thank you so much,
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-with-plot-over-line-tool/17212/4 "2025-09-26T13:27:34Z")
I’m unable to reprduce a crash so far.
Steps to (not) repro:
- run ParaView (6.0.0 binary on linux)
- open Thermal\_3Y\_composite\_ddr0p0\_dar0p0\_dm0p0\_Run\_2\_femdem.r2m\_basic\_540000.vtu\*, Apply
- PlotOverLine, Apply
- File → SaveData → test.csv → Check WriteTimeStep, Uncheck AddMetaData, Check AddTimeStep
- Ok
- No crash
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### Author:  [@Federico\_Feliziani](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Federico_Feliziani)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-with-plot-over-line-tool/17212/5 "2025-09-26T14:01:21Z")
Thank you Mathieu for your support.
The steps you suggested me are the same I used so far and I shared with you above.
If I process only a single file Paraview does not crash and I’m able to save a csv file containing only the data related to that step. If I import as a single group all the files together (even those I already shared with you), and I try to save the data along a plot line referred to all the steps, Paraview crashes.
Does it appen also to you if you process the files I shared with you all together?
I’m also uploading all data at the same GDrive link in a second folder.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/crash-with-plot-over-line-tool/17212/6 "2025-09-30T07:06:54Z")
> [@Federico\_Feliziani](#):
>
> Does it appen also to you if you process the files I shared with you all together?
No, I do not reproduce using the 6.0.0 binary on linux.