# Error opening Nifti files

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-opening-nifti-files/13565
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 19, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-opening-nifti-files/13565 "2023-12-19T12:41:21Z")
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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: [December 20, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-opening-nifti-files/13565/6 "2023-12-20T13:03:16Z")

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I’m afraid not, see this discussion though:

> [@Adding support for opening \*any\* archived single file](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-support-for-opening-any-archived-single-file/13365/7):
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> After some internal discussion, another potential solution emerged. Instead of relying on the vtkRessourceParser to abstract the decompression, going one layer deeper, to the filesystem, may prove more usefull to end users. Indeed, way too many formats rely on multiple file which would not be supported with the proposed implementation, as @Kenneth_Moreland pointed out. This new solution would be instead mounting the archive in the host filesystem in a temporary directory. This is a bit simil…

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