Open files from external drives

Feature Requests
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Paraview in Linux and Windows can only read files from the internal computer drive; there is no option to read in a file from an external drive. It would be useful for the ‘File’, ‘Open’ option in the main menu of Paraview to be to have an option to read a file from an external drive, normally connect to the computer by usb.

This would seem a relatively easy thing to include in the Paraview software and i’m surprised there are no other requests for this. It would offer a greater flexibility for Paraview. many thanks, N

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At least in Windows, this is already possible. The GUI dialog just doesn’t show you the drive. Type E: (for instance) into the filename bar and click Navigate, and it’ll take you there.

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@aron.helser I think this was fixed, was it ?

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That suggested by Nathan works just fine, but granted initially you dont see the drive. N

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Yes, this is fixed in the latest file dialog - external drives are included in the Locations sidebar.

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