# Failed to read data

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failed-to-read-data/5161
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [August 22, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failed-to-read-data/5161 "2020-08-22T14:12:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![azer](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/azer/32/4755_2.png) [@azer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/azer)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failed-to-read-data/5161/1 "2020-08-22T14:12:59Z")

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I’m trying to visualize the data that I have from Titan2D, the data format is .xmf and I try to open it with XMDF Reader on the first three options, but then it shows me an error that said Failed to read attribute data.

```
ERROR: In /build/paraview-vlxewD/paraview-5.7.0/VTK/IO/Xdmf2/vtkXdmfHeavyData.cxx, line 1226
vtkXdmfReader (0x5557f37493f0): Failed to read attribute data

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here is my xmf file  
[snapshot\_Quad9\_p0000\_i00002151.xmf](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/cAG1k15mPbr6IblPvy0iOsFiwHv.xmf) (14.1 KB)

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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: [August 31, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failed-to-read-data/5161/2 "2020-08-31T09:04:00Z")

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You need to share all the other files as well (eg: Elem\_Table/CoordX).