# Potential length overflow for large data

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/potential-length-overflow-for-large-data/15516
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 8, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/potential-length-overflow-for-large-data/15516 "2024-10-08T08:04:05Z")
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### Author: ![pkufourier](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/pkufourier/32/15314_2.png) [@pkufourier](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/pkufourier)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/potential-length-overflow-for-large-data/15516/1 "2024-10-08T08:04:05Z")

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This problem happens when I loaded a data exceed 2GB that was generated by AMReX, with Paraview 5.13.0 under Windows 10. See details at [The WriteMultiLevelPlotfile or Paraview seems to overflow for large data sheet · Issue #4167 · AMReX-Codes/amrex · GitHub](https://github.com/AMReX-Codes/amrex/issues/4167). However, when loading the data unber Ubuntu 22.04 with the Linux binary of Paraview 5.13.1, every thing goes correctly. Therefore, there might be a issue for the data type that used in Paraview under Windows (4 bytes or 8 bytes). I am not sure whether it is `long` or not.