# Paraview Crash when opening vtk file

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vtk-file/7852
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vtk-file/7852 "2021-08-24T04:35:48Z")
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### Author: ![Yuan\_Feng](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/yuan_feng/32/7420_2.png) [@Yuan\_Feng](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Yuan_Feng)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vtk-file/7852/1 "2021-08-24T04:35:48Z")

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Hello, I am trying to open a vtk file but Paraview crashes after loading few seconds without any error or warning message.

However, when I open other file, the Paraview works fine.

I deleted some CELLS in the vtk file, for very small total numbers, like 1, 10, it can work. but for large numbers, 1K, 10K, it still crashes.

I have attached the vtk file in here, please check this out. Thank you for your support!  
[Beam.vtk](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/19qlKN6CXyilsifF0oBkUaEwjKv.vtk) (2.5 MB)

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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 24, 2021, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crash-when-opening-vtk-file/7852/2 "2021-08-24T08:05:11Z")

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File is probably mis-formated, In any case, this is causing a segfault so it should be fixed.

Can you open an issue : [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues) ?