# Save animation without opening paraview

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-animation-without-opening-paraview/11443
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 19, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-animation-without-opening-paraview/11443 "2023-02-19T16:01:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![fieldofnodes](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/fieldofnodes/32/10605_2.png) [@fieldofnodes](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fieldofnodes)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-animation-without-opening-paraview/11443/1 "2023-02-19T16:01:35Z")

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I have a sate file taht works or paraview 5.6/5.7, since I upgraded Ubuntu to 22.04 and was trying to get python and paraview to work I reinstalled paraview. Now I am using paraview 5.10, but my psvm, pvd files don’t work.

I want to know if there is a way to save the animation directly it python?

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### Author: ![fieldofnodes](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/fieldofnodes/32/10605_2.png) [@fieldofnodes](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/fieldofnodes)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-animation-without-opening-paraview/11443/2 "2023-02-19T18:45:36Z")

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Actually, I just installed an old tar.gz version.