# Error loading PVD file

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-loading-pvd-file/3637
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-loading-pvd-file/3637 "2020-02-21T21:40:18Z")
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### Author: ![greendt416](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@greendt416](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/greendt416)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-loading-pvd-file/3637/1 "2020-02-21T21:40:19Z")

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Hello,  
I’m new to ParaView and I’ve been trying to load a simulation of a planetoid mantle evolving over time. I’ve been able to run the model on a different computer using ParaView version 5.5.0 but I had a frame rate issue. So I’ve been trying to run it on my windows computer using ParaView version 5.8.0 using a PVD file connected to a few pvtu files, but it always come back with the same error “`vtkXMLPUnstructuredGridReader (000002455FB43F30): File for piece 0 cannot be read.`” Does anyone know how to fix this?

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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: [February 24, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-loading-pvd-file/3637/2 "2020-02-24T02:49:05Z")

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please share your .pvd and .vtu files.

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### Author: ![greendt416](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@greendt416](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/greendt416)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-loading-pvd-file/3637/3 "2020-02-24T19:26:42Z")

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[solution.pvd](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/9N2wCFrRvsv0BgF0mjGmjZf2apw.pvd) (31.6 KB) [solution-00000.pvtu](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/jExl7mvi1tMjGPZlqmWn3a8cem4.pvtu) (1.3 KB) [solution-00001.pvtu](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/9R7Dh0FjuR2bfm2qEwJHGp8KKSm.pvtu) (1.3 KB)

These are a few of them.

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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: [February 25, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-loading-pvd-file/3637/4 "2020-02-25T03:34:29Z")

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Your are missing the actual datafile, referenced in solution-0000\*.pvtu.

```
<Piece Source="solution-00000.0000.vtu"/>
```