# Error importing transient OpenFoam (.foam) decomposed data with Paraview on Windows 10 platform

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-importing-transient-openfoam-foam-decomposed-data-with-paraview-on-windows-10-platform/2138
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 28, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-importing-transient-openfoam-foam-decomposed-data-with-paraview-on-windows-10-platform/2138 "2019-06-28T18:28:20Z")
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### Author: ![yek\_irani](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/f07891/32.png) [@yek\_irani](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/yek_irani)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 11:42am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-importing-transient-openfoam-foam-decomposed-data-with-paraview-on-windows-10-platform/2138/7 "2019-07-24T11:42:44Z")

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Hi,

I’ve loaded some data sets as part of this link a few days ago. Please let me know if you were able to download and reproduce the error. Thank you:

> [@Error messages in ParaView when reading in Transient OpenFoam test case](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-messages-in-paraview-when-reading-in-transient-openfoam-test-case/2247/3):
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> Hi, Thank you for looking into this! I am attaching a few tar archives containing example data from the pitzDaily tutorial of OpenFoam (v1806) exemplifying the issue. The archives contain all the necessary dictionary files to re-run the calculations. I’ve modified controlDict to ensure only two time steps are written out. There are four archives: pitzdaily.tar.gz pitzdaily\_exp.tar.gz - same as 1, except results are written out at very early time steps such that the data folders are express…

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