# Paraview Crashes Immediately when opened

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-immediately-when-opened/6278
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 22, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-immediately-when-opened/6278 "2021-01-22T10:10:37Z")
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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: [January 22, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-immediately-when-opened/6278/10 "2021-01-22T11:41:23Z")

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Not the first report of this @cory.quammen

> [@ParaView crashes when trying to open file](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-trying-to-open-file/2089/6):
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> Unless you can share your whole file, It is quite hard to help. Did the file in my message crash as well ?

[https://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2017-March/039648.html](https://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2017-March/039648.html)  
[https://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2017-March/039781.html](https://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2017-March/039781.html)

Probably caused by a special disk on your system that paraview tries to read. Can you check that ?

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