# Load State

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/load-state/13170
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 2, 2023, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/load-state/13170 "2023-11-02T10:36:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Meri\_Gjika](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/meri_gjika/32/12761_2.png) [@Meri\_Gjika](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Meri_Gjika)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/load-state/13170/1 "2023-11-02T10:36:35Z")

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Hi,  
I am trying to load a saved state in Paraview, but what I noticed is that any time I load it Paraview just closes, and I do not know how to solve this because I do not get any error line. Do you have any recommendations?

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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: [November 2, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/load-state/13170/2 "2023-11-02T13:32:34Z")

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Please share the statefile and version of ParaView.

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### Author: ![Meri\_Gjika](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/meri_gjika/32/12761_2.png) [@Meri\_Gjika](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Meri_Gjika)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/load-state/13170/3 "2023-11-02T15:06:44Z")

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Hi, thank you for your replay  
It is a pvsm file the one of the state unfortunately I can not share it because they are sensitive clinical data coming from a patient, and I am using paraview 5.11.2. But I can did not create the state file, I obtained it from someone else.  
Can it be related with the paraview version it was created and the one I am using to open it?

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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: [November 2, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/load-state/13170/4 "2023-11-02T15:08:29Z")

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> [@Meri\_Gjika](#):
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> I can not share it because they are sensitive clinical data coming from a patient

Then I’d suggest to consider contracting professional support: [https://www.kitware.eu/get-support/](https://www.kitware.eu/get-support/)

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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: [November 2, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/load-state/13170/5 "2023-11-02T17:21:07Z")

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> [@Meri\_Gjika](#):
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> Can it be related with the paraview version it was created and the one I am using to open it?

It could be, though 5.11.2 should support state files from version 4.2 and above.

If you open the .pvsm file in a text editor, you should see a line like below:

```xml
<ServerManagerState version="5.10.1">

```

What version does it say?