# how to get last stage of the project i saved

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-last-stage-of-the-project-i-saved/10286
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 9, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-last-stage-of-the-project-i-saved/10286 "2022-09-09T19:15:41Z")
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### Author: ![Pravin\_Poudel](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/pravin_poudel/32/9830_2.png) [@Pravin\_Poudel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Pravin_Poudel)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-last-stage-of-the-project-i-saved/10286/1 "2022-09-09T19:15:41Z")

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Hi, i am trying to do few things with paraview and since i am new to this, i was doing ctrl+s in middle of my work to save the current state of the project.

When i pressed ctrl+s it popped out

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/81230eece69f25a54c16a1e62c0d52229fe56f48.png)

and i did save it as terrain.pvd

When i was adding some filter to the pipeline, paraview suddenly crashed and closed.

When i opened the terrain.pvd file by open file in file menu

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3ee77eb8510fcc6273ca256f3abcf6092ced78d0.png)

i only get this

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/7/75141883a58ea90b2be9546ed12b289fd8292b06.jpeg)

where can i get the last stage of my project?

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-last-stage-of-the-project-i-saved/10286/2 "2022-09-09T19:58:13Z")

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You unintentionally saved the data with Ctrl-S rather than saving ParaView’s state, which includes the filters you’ve added and configured and are expecting to see when you loaded the .pvd file. Instead, you should use File → Save State, and save a .pvsm file.