# Reloaded Files don't show in the view
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloaded-files-dont-show-in-the-view/17120
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 20, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloaded-files-dont-show-in-the-view/17120 "2025-08-20T16:57:45Z")
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Abele](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Daniel_Abele)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloaded-files-dont-show-in-the-view/17120/1 "2025-08-20T16:57:45Z")
Is there something I need to do after “Reload files” to update the view? The view never updates automatically as I would expect. The only way I found to get Paraview to show the changed contents is to switch to a different frame and back. This is annoying and also doesn’t work for a single file as there are no other frames to switch to. It helps to change some other setting or apply a new filter and hit “Apply”, but that’s also annoying.
Happens for any vtu/vtk files, I’m using Paraview 5.10.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloaded-files-dont-show-in-the-view/17120/2 "2025-08-25T11:33:21Z")
> [@Daniel\_Abele](#):
>
> Paraview 5.10.
Please update to ParaView 6.0
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Abele](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Daniel_Abele)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloaded-files-dont-show-in-the-view/17120/3 "2025-08-25T13:27:46Z")
Doesn’t help sadly.
bit more specific what I would like to do:
1. Load a vtk/vtu/pvtu file
1a) optional, apply filters.
2. Display contents of the file in the render view
3. Change contents of the file, usually just point/cell data, but sometimes mesh as well
4. Reload Files, e.g. in the context menu in the pipeline browser or with F5 hotkey
5. Render view should update automatically to display the changed contents.
5 doesn’t happen automatically, and I don’t know of any reliable way to update the view manually.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloaded-files-dont-show-in-the-view/17120/4 "2025-08-25T14:48:12Z")
I’m unable to reproduce with my own data, please share your data.
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Abele](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Daniel_Abele)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloaded-files-dont-show-in-the-view/17120/5 "2025-08-25T15:44:09Z")
I seem to have misunderstood the “Find New Files” option. When you reload for the first time, you get asked “Reload Files” or “Find New Files”. I assumed that “Find new files” means load the existing ones AND any new files where as “Reload Files” only loads the existing files.
I would like to see a solution such as this: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/22344](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/22344) or maybe a third button to do both options. I render simulation output, the output overwrites existing files but may also be a longer or shorter time series.
In the meantime, I think it should be possible to write a macro that uses the reload API: [https://www.kitware.com/refreshingreloading-files-in-paraview/](https://www.kitware.com/refreshingreloading-files-in-paraview/)
Thanks and sorry for the misunderstanding.
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Abele](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Daniel_Abele)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloaded-files-dont-show-in-the-view/17120/6 "2025-08-25T17:24:03Z")
Just if anyone finds this, I now have three macros:
```auto
from paraview.simple import *
ReloadFiles()
```
```auto
from paraview.simple import *
ExtendFilesSeries()
```
```auto
from paraview.simple import *
ExtendFilesSeries()
ReloadFiles()
```
set to shortcuts ctrl+F5, alt+f5 and ctrl+alt+f5 so I always have access to all options.