# ParaView crash when opening vth file with 5.11.1 on windows 11

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vth-file-with-5-11-1-on-windows-11/12173
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 27, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vth-file-with-5-11-1-on-windows-11/12173 "2023-05-27T22:41:38Z")
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### Author: ![Xiaowen\_Shan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/xiaowen_shan/32/11694_2.png) [@Xiaowen\_Shan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Xiaowen_Shan)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vth-file-with-5-11-1-on-windows-11/12173/1 "2023-05-27T22:41:38Z")

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As the title says, the window disappears while clicking the vth file. the vti files that the vth refers to are OK.

[crash.zip](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/kfurcs2CodrflNo72aNlCEU6rpb.zip) (16.2 KB)

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### Author: ![SebastianSalazar42](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@SebastianSalazar42](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/SebastianSalazar42)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2023, 3:01am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vth-file-with-5-11-1-on-windows-11/12173/2 "2023-05-28T03:01:48Z")

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I don’t know if this helps, but: if you move the files from your folder next to the file that (indeed) crashes, the problem dissapears (i think). It doesn’t crash again.

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### Author: ![Xiaowen\_Shan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/xiaowen_shan/32/11694_2.png) [@Xiaowen\_Shan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Xiaowen_Shan)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vth-file-with-5-11-1-on-windows-11/12173/3 "2023-05-28T16:27:01Z")

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I tried that, ie, moving the vti files to the same folder of the vth file, it still crashes. I hand-edit the vth file to remove the directory part and it still does the same thing. But, I found if I edit away all the Blocks other than the first (level 0), leaving only one Block, then it won’t crash.

BTW, the files and directories were created by vtkXMLPUniformGridAMRWriter.

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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: [May 30, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vth-file-with-5-11-1-on-windows-11/12173/4 "2023-05-30T07:40:53Z")

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Confirmed, please open an issue on [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues)

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### Author: ![Xiaowen\_Shan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/xiaowen_shan/32/11694_2.png) [@Xiaowen\_Shan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Xiaowen_Shan)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vth-file-with-5-11-1-on-windows-11/12173/5 "2023-05-30T16:47:46Z")

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> [@Xiaowen\_Shan](#):
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> I tried that, ie, moving the vti files to the same folder of the vth file, it still crashes. I hand-edit the vth file to remove the directory part and it still does the same thing. But, I found if I edit away all the Blocks other than the first (level 0), leaving only one Block, then it won’t crash.
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> BTW, the files and directories were created by vtkXMLPUniformGridAMRWriter.

[ParaView 5.11.1 crashes when opening vth file on windows 11 (#22157) · Issues · ParaView / ParaView · GitLab (kitware.com)](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/22157)