# Failure to load an OpenFOAM Controldict.

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-to-load-an-openfoam-controldict/3667
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 26, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-to-load-an-openfoam-controldict/3667 "2020-02-26T05:10:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![David\_Vazquez](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/david_vazquez/32/3086_2.png) [@David\_Vazquez](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/David_Vazquez)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-to-load-an-openfoam-controldict/3667/1 "2020-02-26T05:10:57Z")

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Good day,

Paraview is crashing immediately without any messages when trying to open a Controldict file of an OpenFOAM case. It is only happening with this specific case and I do not know why since it does not display an error message after crashing. I tried downgrading to an older version (4.1) of paraview to see if this would help, however it did not.

Attached is a .rar file of the case with the simulation already being done.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!  
[forwardStep\_TestMesh.rar](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/8z1zm5M2ik7aeVxS1QafRlw8cwO.rar) (2.2 MB)

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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 27, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-to-load-an-openfoam-controldict/3667/2 "2020-02-27T04:31:25Z")

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To open an OpenFOAM file in ParaView, one needs to create a `foo.foam` file in the main directory and open this file.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4e254fc47aebe5543a93c5e0413413df11265dc2.png)

To create the file, just use `touch` or create the file using any text editor.