# data loss after running a script

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/data-loss-after-running-a-script/14926
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [June 26, 2024, 7:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/data-loss-after-running-a-script/14926 "2024-06-26T07:36:27Z")
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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: [June 27, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/data-loss-after-running-a-script/14926/7 "2024-06-27T14:27:04Z")

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A .series file like this let you specify the time value.

> [@Viewing .vtk files for each mesh domain in a time series - IS IT POSSIBLE?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/viewing-vtk-files-for-each-mesh-domain-in-a-time-series-is-it-possible/577/4):
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> If you look at the vtk.series format, it’s simply a json with the name of the file and the timestep it corresponds to. { "file-series-version" : "1.0", "files" : [{ "name" : "foo1.vtk", "time" : 0 }, { "name" : "foo2.vtk", "time" : 5.5 }, { "name" : "foo3.vtk", "time" : 11.2 }] } That how ParaView will know which file to load for a particular time. You should be able to put together such a file manually too, but doing it 93 times can be tedious :), hence my suggestion to a…

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