# Paraview 5.9.1 crashing when loading time steps results

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-9-1-crashing-when-loading-time-steps-results/7675
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 23, 2021, 8:58am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-9-1-crashing-when-loading-time-steps-results/7675 "2021-07-23T08:58:00Z")
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### Author: ![giammazazza](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/dfb087/32.png) [@giammazazza](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/giammazazza)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2021, 8:58am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-9-1-crashing-when-loading-time-steps-results/7675/1 "2021-07-23T08:58:00Z")

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Hi guys,

hopefully someone can help me with this.

I’m using Paraview 5.9.1 in windows 10, and I use it to check openFoam results.  
The problem is that, if I load an openfoam transient results set everything is fine, but if i change the time to some later step than the initial ones, Paraview crashes.

A message window appears while crashing, but this stays blank and then disappears, so I have no idea on what kind of error is causing the crash.  
Is there a way to see the latest error messages, may be in a log file somewhere? Any idea on what the problem could be?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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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: [August 2, 2021, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-9-1-crashing-when-loading-time-steps-results/7675/2 "2021-08-02T09:26:48Z")

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> Is there a way to see the latest error messages, may be in a log file somewhere?

use --log option

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### Author: ![giammazazza](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/dfb087/32.png) [@giammazazza](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/giammazazza)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2021, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-9-1-crashing-when-loading-time-steps-results/7675/3 "2021-08-02T10:20:41Z")

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Hi Mathieu,

thanks for your reply.

I tried to run Paraview like so in the cmd prompt in windows:

```auto
C:\Program Files\ParaView 5.9.1-Windows-Python3.8-msvc2017-64bit\bin>paraview.exe --log

```

But what happens is that a new window opens, shows some messages very quickly (too fast to be read), then the windows closes and nothing else happens (paraview does not start).

Am I doing anything wrong?

Thanks,  
Gianmaria

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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: [August 2, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-9-1-crashing-when-loading-time-steps-results/7675/4 "2021-08-02T12:29:05Z")

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`--log=C:\path\to\log.txt`