# Moving a scene to a different machine

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/moving-a-scene-to-a-different-machine/289
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 7, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/moving-a-scene-to-a-different-machine/289 "2018-07-07T21:01:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![RickF](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@RickF](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/RickF)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/moving-a-scene-to-a-different-machine/289/1 "2018-07-07T21:01:27Z")

</div>

Hi,

I have a complex scene with lots of objects with textures mapped, etc. I want to move this to a diff end machine to work on it but the files are sort of scattered around…is there a utility that can read my state file and get all the components together and help me move this to a new machine?

Rick

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### 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: [July 9, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/moving-a-scene-to-a-different-machine/289/2 "2018-07-09T01:25:04Z")

</div>

Nothing like that sadly. You will need to do that manually or write a script for it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![RickF](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@RickF](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/RickF)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/moving-a-scene-to-a-different-machine/289/3 "2018-07-09T01:50:16Z")

</div>

Hmm easy enough to do I suppose. Looks like it’s xml