# Loading State file in Paraview Client

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-state-file-in-paraview-client/1548
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 28, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-state-file-in-paraview-client/1548 "2019-03-28T01:37:10Z")
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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/loading-state-file-in-paraview-client/1548/2 "2019-03-28T01:40:30Z")

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This is by design. Your datasets will be located on the remote file system (server side), but state saves and loads, as well as save screenshot and save animation products are always written to the local machine (client side).

The state file should be small - just copy it to the client side?

Alan

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