# Paraview crash when change time step

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-change-time-step/6351
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 31, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-change-time-step/6351 "2021-01-31T04:03:33Z")
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### Author: ![devinInOttawa](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/devininottawa/32/5824_2.png) [@devinInOttawa](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/devinInOttawa)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-change-time-step/6351/1 "2021-01-31T04:03:33Z")

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[cavity - Copy.zip](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/kpRpyMLYKHuGoCc2kGOmgCEM1Dx.zip) (1.1 MB) Greetings,

I used Paraview to view my Openfoam results. It crashed when I changed time step. I tried different versions of Paraview. And it did not work.

Could you give me some hints what I can do? Is is openfoam problem or paraview problem?

Thank you!

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### Author: ![olesenm](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/olesenm/32/17416_2.png) [@olesenm](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/olesenm)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-change-time-step/6351/2 "2021-02-01T09:22:33Z")

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Hi @devinInOttawa - welcome to the ParaView (and OpenFOAM) community!

The cause looks pretty obvious to me - see [issue 18103](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/issues/18103)

For now, the only obvious (ugly) workaround is to remove those files I guess. Not a satisfying answer, I know.

Cheers,  
/mark