# Save Data, skipping timesteps

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-data-skipping-timesteps/497
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 29, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-data-skipping-timesteps/497 "2018-08-29T18:27:07Z")
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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-data-skipping-timesteps/497/1 "2018-08-29T18:27:07Z")

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Is it possible to Save Data, saving a subset of the timesteps? I tried this with can.exo, after modifying the Animation Inspector to be sequence, and still ended up with 44 timesteps. From my user:

“Is there a way in paraview to just skip and save every 2 frames without having to specify something in the sequence animation setup when it is an odd number?”

Is this a feature hole, and do I need to write up a feature request?

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### Author: ![utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/utkarsh.ayachit/32/39_2.png) [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/save-data-skipping-timesteps/497/2 "2018-08-29T18:34:15Z")

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Apply **Extract TimeSteps** filter with the following:  
 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/1X/cd6830ae53e59c85b5c491e476d730829854c8da.png)

State attached: [example.pvsm](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/1X/30ac97ba9bf34b8cb03c5e2f34e567a607958f58.pvsm) (310.2 KB)