# Paraview crashes every time when reading cell data of plt file

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-every-time-when-reading-cell-data-of-plt-file/15737
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 17, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-every-time-when-reading-cell-data-of-plt-file/15737 "2024-11-17T23:00:09Z")
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### Author: ![Iamcannon](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@Iamcannon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Iamcannon)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-every-time-when-reading-cell-data-of-plt-file/15737/1 "2024-11-17T23:00:09Z")

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Hi there,

Like the title suggests, paraview can’t load cell array of plt file, regardless of whether the plt file is large or not. It just crashed without any error.

The version I am using is 5.13.1 both win and linux, I have tried from 5.7 to 5.13 windows version(with python3) but all of them don’t work.

The plt file is created both by TECINI110 … and Fortran stream write begin with #!TDV112  
So the tecplot version is not that new. I attach an example here.  
[merge\_all.plt](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/jr3K6v3vCCtnwZn7ESlqVr24TRv.plt) (2.1 MB)

If someone could give any hint I would be appreciated. Thank you.

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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: [November 18, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-every-time-when-reading-cell-data-of-plt-file/15737/2 "2024-11-18T09:12:06Z")

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Works fine with ParaView 5.13 (on Linux):

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a7e30897f6e3a931f70ff78c59c6c3686bbf81ff.png)

I have some errors if I try to read the cell data but it does not crash.