In both Linux and Windows Paraview does not have an option to read a file from an external disk dive. Clicking on ‘File’, then ‘Open’ brings up the ‘Open File’ window, and you can only see the internal computer drive (normally C:/ in Windows); no external drives are visible. Similarly on Linux, ther…

Welcome to ParaView, @neil ! This is not expected behavior. I filed an issue here: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/21520 ParaView has a custom file dialog, so it’s possible that it has not accounted for external drives. Can you confirm that if you plug in your external drive …

Dear Cory, Thank you for getting back to me on this issue. I just tried it, and sure enough, ParaView does not see the external drive. I tried this on both Linux Mint and Windows 10 operating systems and in both cases, the external drives cannot be seen. I also tried this with several other extern…

I mapped the external hard drive to a network drive letter. Now I can access it. The caveat is that it needed to be a drive letter that Paraview already recognized…i…e. I couldn’t use an arbitrary letter. So I disconnected/unmounted an existing network drive and used its letter to map to the exter…

Yes, I did see this post earlier – thank you. But certainly a fix at source, would ease the problems of having to map a network drive, or for new users having to go through this loop to find a solution. [image002.jpg] [image002.jpg]

I think Cory flagged it as an issue on github - looking forward to the fix :slight_smile:

I put this down as a ‘Feature Request’ on the Paraview website, so folks may vote for it, and hopefully then an updated version of Paraview will have this capability. Best wishes, N

Hi @neil @Sandeep_Jella - I wanted to let you know I looked at this issue, and on Windows I have a work-around for you. If you hit the “Reset favorites to system default” button as shown in this screenshot, ParaView will detect new drive letters and display them. The disadvantage is it erases any o…

Hi Aron, Yes! Thank you, that works perfectly in Windows, great solution! That’s will be a great help to many people. In Linux Mint, the directories are in as you indicate /media/username/ However, I can go into Paraview in Mint, but I don’t seem to be able to get the open file menu to navigate t…

I’m surprised. On Mint, If you go to the “Look In” combo-box at the very top of the dialog, can you select “/” (the first entry)? Then “media” should be listed and you can navigate from there. An alternative is to type or copy/paste the full directory name “/media/username/HASH” (with the actual val…

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