# ParaView crashes when I try to open certain files
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** exodus
**Created:** [July 19, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026 "2022-07-19T08:41:57Z")
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### Author:  [@JFihosy](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/JFihosy)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026/1 "2022-07-19T08:41:57Z")
I’m trying to use ParaView version 5.10.1 to view exodus files created by the MOOSE finite element modelling software. My ParaView starts up fine and is able to load certain .e files (5000 KB) such as those I created during MOOSE’s tutorial. I’ve been running larger simulations in MOOSE (.e files are ~50 MB) and ParaView immediately crashes when I try to open them with it. No error message displays so I have no idea what the root cause of this is. Can anyone offer some ideas on what to do? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026/2 "2022-07-19T08:59:05Z")
Hi @JFihosy ,
Please share your data.
Best,
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### Author:  [@JFihosy](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/JFihosy)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026/3 "2022-07-19T09:36:52Z")
Hi @mwestphal ,
[SampleMOOSEImpDesorb\_out.e](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/cYKaPxZ8ctXIrOkZu8kpk1WPt02.e) (3.8 MB)
Here’s an example of a file it can’t run. It’s just a typical output file but I massively cut down the time simulation runs for to meet the 4MB file limit here. ParaView crashes even when it try to load this file.
[step1a\_out.e](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/pRDjqKHH7hi3QjFaUVWyxkvEyoE.e) (3.4 MB)
Meanwhile here’s a file that my ParaView _is_ able to load without issue. Hopefully this helps.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026/4 "2022-07-19T11:39:50Z")
This is an actual issue in the IOSSReader, please open an issue on our gitlab:
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues)
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### Author:  [@JFihosy](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/JFihosy)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026/5 "2022-07-19T12:39:05Z")
How much do you know about this issue? Are there any more details you can suggest I give besides what I’ve told you already?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026/6 "2022-07-19T12:48:11Z")
I have a backtrace, I’ll add it to the issue. Just make sure to include the data in your issue, thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@JFihosy](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/JFihosy)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-crashes-when-i-try-to-open-certain-files/10026/7 "2022-07-19T13:00:45Z")
Thanks. I have raised the issue. Link is here: [IOSSReader error causes ParaView to crash when opening certain exodus files (#21474) · Issues · ParaView / ParaView · GitLab (kitware.com)](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21474).
Thanks for the help so far 🙂